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Burst pipe in Parliament’s West Block floods Trudeau out of meeting
OTTAWA — Members of Parliament are used to raising a political stink as part of their job.
But there was an odour of a different kind Tuesday coming out of the newly renovated West Block building that is now the temporary home of the House of Commons — the kind of smell that comes from water soaking freshly installed carpet.
A burst sprinkler pipe flooded several levels of the building, a day after members of Parliament started working there, including a section where the federal cabinet had met just hours before.