OTTAWA - Some Conservative MPs deflected questions Wednesday about Pierre Poilievre’s comments on the RCMP, after the Liberals, Greens and NDP called on the Conservative leader to apologize.

"There's a five-alarm fire going on in this country, with jobs, with inflation... so that's what we're going in to talk about," House leader Andrew Scheer told reporters ahead of the party's weekly caucus meeting.

In a recent interview with a YouTube channel, Poilievre called the RCMP's leadership "despicable" and accused it of covering up for former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

Poilievre claimed that Trudeau could have been charged criminally for accepting a vacation from the Aga Khan and said the former prime minister would be in jail if not for the RCMP.

"Of course," Conservative MP Todd Doher

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