The Conservative Party is ramping up pressure on Employment Minister Randy Boissonneau to resign following reports that his former medical supply company shared a letterbox with a woman detained in a drug raid.
Ann report According to an article published in Monday’s National Post, Boissonneau’s former company, Global Health Imports Corporation (GHI), used a rented mailbox at a UPS store in Edmonton in 2020 to sell mailboxes to Francesca Lebron (2022). He was said to have shared it with a woman who was arrested in a cocaine bust in the Dominican Republic in 2017. .
According to the National Post, Mr. Boissonneau owned half of GHI’s stock at the time, when GHI shared a mailbox with LeBlond.
During question period in the House of Commons on Monday, the Edmonton MP repeatedly denied any ties to LeBron.
“I have never met that person. I have no business with her. That’s the fact,” he said.
Boissonneau has faced intense scrutiny over conflicting claims about his family’s Indigenous heritage and allegations that he claimed his company was “Indigenous-owned” when bidding for a 2020 federal contract.
Conservative MP Michael Barrett introduced a motion in October calling on the House of Commons to hold Stephen Anderson, chief operating officer of Global Health Imports and Boissonneau’s former business partner, in contempt of parliament. . The motion is currently being debated.
Anderson is at the center of a House of Commons Ethics Committee investigation that began after a series of documents were released as part of a legal proceeding.
Employment Minister Randy Boissonneau apologized Friday for not being as “clear” as he said about his family history. Boissonneau said he was adopted by an Indigenous family, but he never claimed Indigenous status himself.
These texts show Mr. Anderson mentioning someone named “Randy” in business conversations with colleagues, and that Mr. Anderson also discussed business matters with Mr. Boissonneau while he was a cabinet minister. Questions have arisen as to whether Mr. Boissonneau was consulted.
Since being re-elected in 2021, Mr. Boissonneau has denied any involvement in the business and claimed that Mr. Anderson worked without his consent to “advance his personal interests.”
Global news is reported Mr. Anderson and Mr. LeBron registered a numbered company together (13560449 Canada Ltd.) in December 2021, after Mr. Boissonneau was elected and appointed to the cabinet.
The Conservative Party accused Mr Anderson of failing to answer questions during an appearance before the Ethics Committee and of failing to produce documents related to the matter.
Asserting Indigenous Identity
Although Boissonneau has never claimed to be Indigenous, she has repeatedly referred to her great-grandmother as a Cree woman in public statements and said in 2021 that she was given a Cree name. She has spoken the Cree language at least twice during legislative proceedings and identifies as a Cree woman. “Non-status adopted Cree”
On November 8, Boissonneau spoke to the media: statement that his “adoptive mother and brother” are of Métis status;
However, other parties, including the Liberal Party, are asserting indigenous identity on Boissonneau’s behalf.
In 2015, the Liberal Party’s Indigenous Committee, an internal party group that promotes the interests of Indigenous Party members, found Boissonneau: One of 10 Indigenous Liberal candidates elected to the House of Commons.
This claim was repeated the next day. Social media platform Instagram.
In 2019, the Liberal Party told CBC News that Boissonneau was Indigenous, but five weeks after the article listing the number of Indigenous candidates was published, the Liberal Party said Boissonneau was of Indigenous heritage. I sent an explanation stating that I had not made any claims.
The party said the information identifying Boissonneau as Indigenous “resulted from a staff error.”
At the time, the Liberal Party claimed that Boissonneau’s mother was Cree.
