Daily Archives: 4/23/2010
Jaffer Associate Invokes Race Card, Nice Try Dude
| 4/23/2010 | Posted by Patti under Canadian Politics |
On Wednesday Rahim Jaffer and his business partner appeared before the House government operations committee to answers questions in regards to their dealings with the federal government. Jaffer is a former Conservative MP who lost a seat he should have won in the 2008 election, his partner a former Liberal candidate in that same election.
The two faced some hard questioning from all parties present, including the Conservatives. The two needed to face some hard questions when it is clear that they have been involved in either, at best skirting the edges of the lobbying rules or at worst, directly ignoring them in their quest to try to get funding for projects their business is supposed to represent.
A principle of one of the companies named as being represented by Jaffer and his partner and applications for millions in grants claimed he didn’t even know his company was involved in the applications. The former Liberal MP said if he wanted to apply for grants he would have done so himself. Makes sense since he would know his way around government grants as well as Jaffer likely would. (more…)
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