Three Conservative MPs on Wednesday called on the Trudeau government to determine whether the Canadian Emergency Benefit (CEP) was indeed used to buy illegal weapons.
Conservative MPs Raquel Dancho, Pierre Paul-Hus and Stephanie Kusie call on the Trudeau government “to launch a full and thorough audit to determine if taxpayer money has actually been distributed to criminals in the form of pandemic benefits” . The situation “must be dealt with urgently,” read a letter to Marco Mendicino, Minister of Public Safety and Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labor. ” Inclusion of people with disabilities.
In June 2020, the police intervened during an illegal party in Old Montreal, after seeing a video posted on the Snapchat social network where guns were displayed, as well as a plastic bag containing a lot of cash. The video in question was allegedly filmed with the phone of a man named Mouad Rasmi. In his decision dated November 23, Judge Yves Poulin writes that “an in-depth analysis [du même appareil] supports the latter’s participation in a fraudulent scheme in connection with the Canadian Emergency Benefit ”.
Conservative MPs say it is unacceptable that “illegal guns were bought with taxpayers’ money in the form of the PCU, especially with the wave of deadly shootings taking place in Montreal.”
At the end of this “complete and in-depth verification”, the Conservative deputies ask the government “to share [ses] conclusions to the Auditor General of Canada, whose office continues to investigate the insufficiency of the post-payment audit of the ECP program ”.
With Daniel Renaud and Philippe Teisceira-Lessard, Press