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In a case that generated international headlines, Dominican authorities detained 12 Canadians, including Leblond, after the crew from the Canadian charter company Pivot Airlines said they discovered 210 kilograms of cocaine hidden in their plane. Dominican prosecutors launched an investigation, but no charges were laid.
Boissonnault’s sale of his share of the company comes after Global News published a series of stories that detailed GHIs’ troubled history, includinga civil allegation of fraud against Anderson, and a fire at the company’s warehouse started by three arsonists in the dead of night. Dalhousie University governance and ethics professor Lori Turnbull said Boissonnault distancing himself from GHI and Anderson is “the smart thing to do.”
That “does not exonerate Minister Boissonnault so long as important questions remain unanswered,” Tory MP Micheal Barrett said in a statement. “So why have they kept around? I mean, he is kind of a ticking time bomb for them. He is a gift to the Conservative opposition and to Mr. Poilievre.”In 2008, Francheska Leblond was known as Francheska Quach. Edmonton police charged the 21-year-old with possession of marijuana for the purposes of trafficking and possession of money under $5,000 obtained by crime.
Anderson said the numbered company does not have anything to do with GHI or his other company, Global Healthcare Solutions .