Elections watchdog probe continues into Conservative riding association cash donation from alleged fugitive drug “banker”
Cash donations were registered under the name of five people
Cash donations were registered under the name of five people
An Elections Canada probe into a $5,000 cash donation to a Conservative riding association in Montreal has been slowed by the death of a party fundraiser, according to the office of the NDP’s ethics critic.
At an airport northeast of Boston, on a Wednesday in October, a private jet waited for the arrival of two Montreal men carrying a pair of suitcases stuffed with $1.7 million US in cash.
The federal NDP asked Elections Canada Thursday to probe a $5,000 cash donation to the Conservative party from a fugitive businessman the RCMP believes acted as the “banker” for a cross-border marijuana smuggling network.
Michael Chamas, the alleged “banker” for a Mohawk-based marijuana smuggling ring, is a wanted man in Canada, but recent RCMP efforts to nab him internationally haven’t slowed his globe-trotting ways.
Her father was a preacher and she says she believes in God.
Daniele Guarino couldn’t remember the name of the foreign affairs minister.
On a Tuesday January evening in Montreal, Conservative party banners hung alongside gold dragons against a red wall at the Ruby Rouge restaurant in Montreal.
John Crosbie, the lieutenant-governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, says he wrote the letter to the immigration minister as a favour for a friend who wanted to buy the Quebec-based Laurentian Bank of Canada.