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QUEBEC — Elections Quebec will examine two $100 donations made by a bereaved couple who wished to satisfy Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault at a fundraising cocktail.
“Public info leads us to imagine that the 2 contributions would have been made in alternate for a consideration, thus making these contributions non-compliant,” Elections Quebec spokesperson Julie St-Arnaud-Drolet wrote in an e-mail to Presse Canadienne on Monday.
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Two weeks in the past, the controversy affecting the Coalition Avenir Québec regained momentum as Antoine Bittar and Élizabeth Rivera informed a parliamentary committee that they needed to make a donation to the get together of $100 every to satisfy Guilbault.
The couple has been on a campaign to decrease the permitted blood alcohol degree from 0.08 to 0.05 (50 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood) because the lack of their daughter in 2017. Their daughter was killed by an impaired driver.
The couple has since been reimbursed by the CAQ. “We’ll contemplate the Coalition Avenir Québec’s method as compensation to the 2 residents, and never as a reimbursement of their contributions. It is going to then be a celebration expense and this expense should seem within the get together’s annual monetary report,” St-Arnaud-Drolet wrote.
The Election Act gives that any citizen can contribute as much as $100 per 12 months to a political get together, however with out compensation.
“We aren’t concerned on this, they’re those who deal with it immediately. (Elections Quebec) has each proper to research and perform extra verifications on all donations. … We won’t be contacted, except we should be a witness,” CAQ director normal Brigitte Legault stated.
The CAQ has been in turmoil for a number of weeks due to controversies over its fundraising strategies.
Presse Canadienne revealed messages from CAQ MPs who invited municipal elected officers to get together fundraising cocktails, suggesting it could be a chance to advance points.
Two CAQ MNAs, Sylvain Lévesque and Louis-Charles Thouin, are the goal of an investigation by the Nationwide Meeting’s ethics commissioner.
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