The member for Laviolette–Saint-Maurice, Marie-Louise Tardif, does not rule out continuing the daily Le Nouvellistewho reported last month the remarks that earned him an exclusion from the CAQ caucus.
” We’ll see. There will perhaps be a sequel, ”said the Mauritian elected official on Wednesday, a few minutes before being officially reinstated in the caucus of the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ). The day before, the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP) had announced that he had no “reasonable prospect of conviction in view of the evidence collected” and had cleared Mme Late.
The MNA, who is serving her second term in the National Assembly, was under investigation by the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) for threats she allegedly made against a former employee in the midst of courtroom, at the end of February. According Le NouvellisteMme Tardif would then have whispered to her that she was going to “embark on [son] case”, after the said employee had testified in a case opposing the MNA to her former director of the constituency office, Marc Léopold Fortin.
“Very happy” to rejoin the CAQ team on Wednesday, Mme Tardif told reporters to have ” [sa] version” of the facts reported by the Trois-Rivières daily. “I can’t control what people say and what people think. And you weren’t there. There were very few people,” she said.
“Who told you that I said those things? she added, before specifying that she did not deny having pronounced them.
Mme Tardif had attracted covetousness when he was temporarily excluded from the government caucus in early March. The Conservative Party of Quebec had even stressed that it was “present” to welcome him. Then, on Tuesday, following the DPCP’s decision, Prime Minister François Legault indicated that his MP would “probably” return to the CAQ team.
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