Report From Parliament Hill
Eric Melillo, MP, Kenora Riding
Dear Constituents
After 9 years of this NDP-Liberal government, the former employment minister, Randy Boissonnault, has now joined the Prime Minister and many of his fellow ministers with his own ethics scandal.
It has been reported that he is tied to a lobbyist who received a staggering $110 million in federal contracts, and he was the director of the company that received a further $8 million of government contracts and is engulfed in allegations of fraud and wire fraud.
Randy Boissonnault also tried to hide that he was getting payments from his lobbying firm while it was lobbying his own government while he was a minister, even his own ministry, but he was caught by Global News.
In addition, we also learned the business claimed to be Indigenous-owned, despite Boissonnault repeatedly stating he is white.
Instead of removing Boissonnault from his cabinet, Trudeau stood by his corrupt minister. Boissonnault has now resigned in disgrace because of his role in taking money from taxpayers and for defrauding Indigenous people by falsely claiming Indigenous identity in order to obtain contracts.
This Prime Minister and his government are not worth the cost or the corruption.
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Sincerely,
Eric Melillo
Member of Parliament
Kenora Riding
Photo labeled "Sioux Lookout residence in 1909."