After the BC Ferries procurement plan was announced in early June, Chrystia Freeland sharply criticized the B.C. government.

Members of Parliament unanimously approved a motion Thursday calling on former Transport minister Chrystia Freeland to appear before a committee again in light of new e-mails revealing her department had several weeks of advance notice that BC Ferries planned to buy four new vessels from a Chinese shipyard.

The motion was approved just hours after The Globe and Mail reported on the existence of the advance warning, which came in the form of a confidential discussion and detailed follow-up e-mail exchange between BC Ferries president and CEO Nicolas Jimenez and Transport Canada deputy minister Arun Thangaraj.

The head’s-up took place in late April. After the BC F

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