Politics Briefing: Illness forces Green Party leader to rely on train for travels to Ottawa for security clearance process

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Hello, Barred from flying on her doctor’s orders, the Leader of the Green Party of Canada is taking the long way from British Columbia, where she lives, to the nation’s capital. MPs usually fly into Ottawa for political business, but Elizabeth May was scheduled on Friday to begin a train ride from Vancouver. She’s heading to Ottawa because she wants to finish her application for security clearance to examine documents on the foreign-interference file. “There’s no virtual option for completing my security clearance,” May said in an interview on Friday. The trip will take four days to Toronto, followed by...