Financial returns filed with Elections Canada show Pierre Poilievre’s team paid $37,000 to two law firms that represented Debra Jodoin
At a news conference on Wednesday, Mr. Poilievre said he “did not have those numbers in front of me” when asked about specifics of his campaign’s support foragainst Mr. Brown became publicly known last summer. Shortly before that, 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.
“When I am prime minister, we will defend all whistle-blowers,” he said, adding that he would protect their ability to “speak out against wrongdoing without fear that they will be destroyed by legal intimidation coming from those with deep pockets.”During last year’s leadership campaign, Ms. Jodoin 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.
“I stated publicly at the time of Patrick Brown’s disqualification that this looked like collusion between the party and the Poilievre campaign to eliminate the one candidate that would snatch the leadership from the tired establishment’s hands,” he said. “We were pretty sure.” “Political parties may set their own rules for how leadership contestants conduct themselves and the types of activity they may engage in as part of their campaign,” he said.
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