Unpublished Newswire

OTTAWA — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne faced pointed questions Thursday over his personal connection to the federal government’s high-speed train plan, with opposition MPs accusing the minister of taking part in more than a dozen votes on the lucrative project after he declared a potential conflict. But Champagne told the House of Commons Ethics Committee that he went beyond the call of duty by writing last September to the prime minister to add a special filter to his conflict-of-interest disclosure after his spouse was hired in August as an executive at Alto. The...