The opposition parties were reassured to see that the Director General of Elections (DGE) opened an investigation into a financing activity of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) where the presence of a government minister had been put forward.
Liberal MP André Fortin recalled that the DGE has a duty to investigate any situation that could suggest a breach of the Election Act. “It certainly reassures me that the DGE is doing his job,” he said in a press briefing.
On Monday, the DGE exceptionally confirmed that an investigation was opened into a fundraising cocktail where a bereaved couple was invited to meet the Minister of Transport, Geneviève Guilbault, to ask her for tougher rules against drunk driving.
Until now, the Ethics Commissioner of the National Assembly, Ariane Mignolet, had been the only one to publicly confirm that she was investigating the financing activities of two CAQ deputies.
The co-spokesperson for Québec solidaire, Emilise Lessard-Therrien, expressed the hope of obtaining an answer on the existence or not of a system organized by the CAQ for its fundraising cocktails in the presence of ministers.
“Of course that reassures us,” she said at a press briefing. What happened there was known to everyone and now the DGE is investigating, we are happy to see that,” she said.
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