Conservative MP sponsoring petition to recover tax dollars spent on ‘Russians at War’ doc

By Ahmad Hathout A Conservative member of Parliament is expected to carry a petition, opened for signatures Tuesday, that asks the federal government to recover all taxpayer money that went into the production of the documentary “Russians at War.” The petition, sponsored by Manitoba MP James Bezan and opening to 331 signatures so far, additionally asks that the government request that Canadian law enforcement agencies, including the RCMP and CSIS, investigate “potentially violations of Canadian, Ukrainian, or international law” by the lead filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova, who is Russian-Canadian; to work with the RCMP to “seize all materials collected and filmed...