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House Hansard - 82

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 6, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 82 - Jun/6/22
Mr. James Bezan (Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, CPC)
  • Jun/6/22 3:02:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of International Trade needs to explain how a close personal friend wound up $17,000 dollars richer after giving the minister a couple of days of media training. Documents tabled in the House show that in April 2020, the minister hired a PR firm run by Liberal insider and CBC pundit Amanda Alvaro just a month after the COVID-19 pandemic began, at a time when many Canadian small businesses were struggling just to survive. The minister needs to come clean. Why did she award a lucrative contract to someone who describes her as a “dear friend”?
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Context: House Hansard - 82 - Jun/6/22
Mr. James Bezan (Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, CPC)
  • Jun/6/22 3:05:13 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the trade minister really needs to brush up on her ethics rules. I would like to remind her that ministers are forbidden from advancing the interests of their close personal friends. This contract is not in dispute. The problem is that the minister awarded $17,000 to Amanda Alvaro, who describes the minister as a “dear friend” and who also ran the minister's election campaign in 2017. Will the minister admit she broke ethics rules, and will she co-operate fully with the Ethics Commissioner’s investigation?
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