A senior Liberal cabinet minister denied Tuesday lobbying on
behalf of one of the country's leading shipbuilders, which has been
swept up in the court fight surrounding the military's former
second-in-command. Treasury Board President Scott Brison faced a second day of questions in the House of Commons over what contacts he had with Irving Shipbuilding of Halifax prior to a key cabinet committee meeting at the heart of the criminal case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. Court documents filed last week alleged that Brison had a "close relationship" with the shipyard and that he was fronting an effort to scuttle a proposal from rival Davie Shipyard, of Levis, Que. in the fall of 2015. Read More Learn More https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-treasury-board https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/9ou49a/scott_brison_ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/davie-shipyard https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/federal-minister-plays-down http://www.poletical.com/scott-brison-maritime-mafia.php https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-the-more- |
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Defending Canada's interests, or those of the Irving family?
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