Seems like just Saturday I was blogging about Scott (“Fancy pants from Kings Hants”) Brison and his involvement in Liberal government debauchery. But that was Liberal Government Debauchery Number 487.
Now we’re back to this—Number 376. (Keep track people!):
Income-trust probe turns to Brison
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has turned over an e-mail received from Liberal MP Scott Brison to police and regulators as part of a probe into the income-trust controversy that dogged the Liberals in the recent election campaign, The Globe and Mail has learned.
Sources said the former public works minister, a potential contender for the Liberal leadership, sent an e-mail to one of CIBC’s employees the day before Ottawa announced its much-anticipated policy on income trusts last November, in which he suggested the recipient would likely be pleased by the decision.
The bank did not learn of the e-mail until after the federal election campaign began, but when it did, it launched an internal review of its trading activity in the lead-up to Ottawa’s announcement. The sources said the review did not turn up anything unusual, but CIBC still decided to bring its report to the attention of the RCMP and the Ontario Securities Commission.
[…] When asked later whether he personally had a communication in which he might have speculated on the outcome without firm knowledge, Mr. Brison said “No,” adding, “You’re asking me something in terms of communication that I don’t remember. I don’t recall anything.”
Mr. Brison also would not say whether he had been questioned by police.
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