OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre returned to the House of Commons Monday afternoon to a chorus of calls from across the aisle for him to apologize over comments he made last week about the RCMP.

Government House leader Steven MacKinnon twice challenged him in question period to apologize “to the people of this chamber and this House” for accusing the RCMP of covering up for former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

“Last week, the leader of the Opposition put into question the independence of our judiciary, the independence of our prosecutors, of the police — in fact, the very police that put their lives on the line to protect him,” MacKinnon said.

Poilievre responded by saying the Liberals were “trying to distract from their inflation, rising cost of living, by talking about t

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