Chris Kelades: One last grapple | SaltWire #thinkingoutloud #sheldonmacleod #mma #saltwire #newsOTTAWA — Ethics commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein said he would take a further look into private text messages sent in 2022 by a mysterious “Randy” that raise questions about Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault’s dealings with a former business partner a year after he joined the federal cabinet.
Those exchanges were dated Sept. 8, 2022, which is almost a year after Boissonnault was first sworn in cabinet as associate Minister of Finance and of Tourism. Last summer, he became Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages. Boissonnault would be breaking the law if he was found to have been actively engaged with GHI after his appointment.
“Clearly, we will look into this and if … there’s more to it, there is substance to it, there may be contraventions,” he added. “I have the capacity to self-initiate another inquiry.” Boissonnault replied that he has had no operational involvement in GHI since he was re-elected, nor is he allowed to know about the operation of this company “because it is not permitted by the ethics commissioner.”