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Two MPs were given a confidential report on the property at the heart of a controversial Brampton land deal months before a company with Liberal Party connections bought it, according to emails obtained by the National Post. One of the MPs, Raj Grewal, had previously claimed he did not see the report until almost a year after the purchase.

The revelation adds another wrinkle to a complex series of events that sources say the Toronto-area municipality has asked the RCMP to review. Meanwhile, the MPs in question and some of the company’s directors complain the matter has unfairly tarnished their reputations.

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At the core of the affair is the city’s purchase of a chunk of land it needed to build a much-delayed overpass across a set of railroad tracks to alleviate traffic on a major arterial road.

The June 2016 internal report by city staff, a copy of which was also obtained by the Post, suggests the city had little choice but to buy the property and recommended paying up to the province’s $3.1-million asking price.