Mr. Poilievre earlier this week confirmed his campaign had paid the legal expenses of whistle-blower Debra Jodoin
A Liberal MP is asking Canada’s elections commissioner to investigate Pierre Poilievre’s leadership campaign for paying the legal expenses of a whistle-blower who was working for the campaign of rival leadership candidate Patrick Brown.
Earlier this week, Mr. Poilievre confirmed that his campaign for leadership of the federal Conservative Party had paid the legal expenses of whistle-blowerShortly before the allegations surfaced, Mr. Brown was disqualified from the leadership race over what the party described as financial irregularities, though it did not confirm at the time that Ms. Jodoin’s complaint was the cause. Mr.In Mr.
In an interview Friday, Mr. Bittle said the commissioner’s office had acknowledged that it had received his letter. He said he had received no other response. “That said, I’m not in a position to comment on whether we have received any correspondence from Chris Bittle or whether his request would fall under our mandate,” Mr. Verrière said.“Poilievre paying off the legal fees of an opponent’s whistleblower is another thing that seems off to people. It feels like murky waters,” MP Matthew Green, the party’s ethics critic, said in a statement.
Ms. Jodoin’s allegations against Mr. Brown concerned campaign spending. During last year’s leadership campaign, she said she had informed the Conservative Party that Mr. Brown had encouraged her to work for him, even though a private company was paying for her expenses, a violation of federal election laws. Mr. Brown denied wrongdoing.
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