In a brief statement Wednesday, Trudeau said Boissonnault “agreed … step away from cabinet effective immediately.”Those allegations, first reported by Global News, involve Boissonnault’s former business Global Health Imports, co-founded with Stephen Anderson in early 2020 after Boissonnault lost his seat in the 2019 election.The Alberta MP said he resigned from the company in the fall of 2021, after he was re-elected and appointed to Trudeau’s cabinet.
Boissonnault denied he was the ‘Randy’ Anderson was referencing in the texts. That led to months of ridicule from the Opposition Conservatives, demanding to know who “the Other Randy” involved in Anderson’s business was.Rogers cuts a ‘few dozen’ audio jobs in tight advertising marketCanada ‘always ready’ to increase U.S.
“I apologize if that particular way of referring to myself – I apologize that it was inaccurate,” Boissonnault said at an Edmonton event on Nov. 15. Earlier in the day, when asked by reporters if he still had confidence in Boissonnault, Trudeau walked by with a smile and a nod.In question period, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre suggested Trudeau “knew” that Boissonnault was “directing his business illegally from inside cabinet.”
“He knew the minister had claimed there was another Randy when there was no other Randy. He knew the minister had falsely claimed to be Indigenous … and yet he stood by him up until yesterday,” Poilievre charged.Trudeau repeated that Boissonnault was stepping down to “focus on clearing these allegations” before pivoting to attack Poilievre for allegedly “muzzling” Conservative MPs.