People kept mocking me via e-mails as I harped on the fact that besides letting strippers into “her Canada” (to borrow the Liberal Party campaign phrase which they meant to be taken literally, apparently), Canada’s Liberal Immigration Minister Judy Sgro also let in a pizza delivery man who delivered pizza to her campaign office during the last election.
I jokingly asked if she got the pizza for free in return for refugee status in Canada.
Federal Immigration Minister Judy Sgro will step down today following allegations she promised a Brampton man asylum in Canada in exchange for assisting in her election campaign.
Sgro’s decision to step aside came only hours after the Toronto Star obtained a copy of an affidavit in which pizza shop owner Harjit Singh claims Sgro pressed him to supply food and workers for her campaign last spring.
Singh, a father of three facing deportation from Canada, alleges in the sworn affidavit filed in the Federal Court of Canada in Toronto yesterday that when word of his arrangement with Sgro started to leak out, Sgro suddenly reneged on the deal and last month ordered his arrest and removal from Canada “to save her job.”
Last night, federal sources confirmed that Sgro, 60, already at the centre of an ethics investigation over her conduct as immigration minister, would be leaving cabinet until she can clear her name.
Sgro, who is MP for York West, was named to cabinet just over a year ago. She is the first of Prime Minister Paul Martin’s ministers to step down under a cloud.
[…] “I told her my whole situation and she assured me that if I helped out in her election campaign she would get me immigration in Canada,” says the father of three in his affidavit.
Singh, who came to Canada from India in 1988, helped Sgro as she asked, including pizza deliveries to her campaign office, he says in his affidavit.
“I own a pizza store in Brampton and Judy said that she wanted me to deliver pizza, garlic bread etc., to her campaign office in North York. I did this. She also said that she needed 15-16 people to help work in her campaign. I organized this for her as well.”
Sgro has spent much of her time lately fending off high-profile allegations that she dispensed political favours.
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Oh and “vote Liberal”.
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