Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages Minister Randy Boissonnault arrives to a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024.Cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault’s former company is facing its seventh lawsuit and an allegation of fraud by an Edmonton seniors care not-for-profit.
The events laid out by Shepherd’s Care regarding the missing inventory allegedly took place in 2022, after Boissonnault said he stepped down from GHI. While Boissonanult was a co-owner of GHI at that time, in general, individual shareholders are not liable for the actions or debts of a company. “This is the type of person that Justin Trudeau’s employment minister chose to associate himself with, and only looked to distance himself from once that relationship became public,” he said in an interview last month.
The statement of claim contains allegations that have not been proven in court. No defence has been filed yet and Anderson did not respond to questions by deadline.Shepherd’s Care’s contract with GHI Supportive living and long-term care facilities, which housed the province’s most vulnerable residents, were scrambling to acquire life-saving PPE.Shepherd’s Care said it sought out GHI because Anderson asserted “that they could acquire PPE that other vendors could not.” The organization did not say how it learned of GHI, which was not incorporated at the time.
During a September count, however, Shepherd’s Care said it discovered a “significant volume” of that inventory had gone missing. Anderson allegedly told Shepherd’s Care the product was in transit and produced a bill of lading as evidence it was accounted for.