Cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault was under scrutiny from the ethics commissioner after texts raised questions about whether he was involved in a business deal while in office.
was involved in a business deal while in cabinet and considers the matter closed, according to a letter obtained by Global News.
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic while he was out of office, Boissonnault co-founded GHI with Edmonton-area hockey coach Stephen Anderson. “On the basis of the information you have provided, and in the absence of any evidence giving me a reason to believe you may have been operating or managing GHI in contravention of subsection 15 the Act, I consider this matter closed,” von Finckenstein wrote in the letter.
Conservative MPs had previously expressed concern that the commissioner relied on “the honour system” and that Boissonnault could not be fully disclosing his communications given that users of these apps can choose to have messages auto-delete.However, when questioned by committee members about his communications with Anderson on Sept.
The call between Anderson and Boissonnault was disclosed to the ethics commissioner and referenced in the Sept. 12 letter, but MPs learned of it for the first time this week. “Now you tell the committee that you did talk to Anderson, you did text Anderson,” Tory MP Michael Cooper said. “You left this committee with the impression you had no communications with Anderson…that is a material omission.”Tory ethics critic Michael Barrett and NDP ethics critic Matthew Green asked Boissonnault if he had received money from GHI or Anderson since his re-election in the fall of 2021.
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