A nonpartisan department inside Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government successfully petitioned Google to remove webpages associated with former conservative leader Stephen Harper from its search results, Canada’s iPolitics reports.
A spokesperson for Trudeau pleaded ignorance on behalf of the prime minister and said the action didn’t come from his office.
However, a spokeswoman for the Privy Council Office—the apolitical advisory office to the prime minister that made the requests—said its actions were, in the words of iPolitics, part of the “standard transition from the Harper government to Trudeau’s.”
The news outlet adds it’s uncertain if Harper’s team made a similar request of Google upon coming into power in 2006.
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