QUESTION PERIOD — Democratic Institutions
Repayment of Improper Election Donations
May 15, 2019
In 2005, Paul Martin, the then Liberal Prime Minister, ordered the reimbursement of $1.14 million that the Liberals had illegally collected in the Adscam, but corruption is still deeply rooted in the Liberal Party of Canada.
I have yet to receive an answer about the $600,000 collected by MP Raj Grewal at a fundraiser held in April 2018 in his riding of Brampton East. I’m also still waiting for an answer about the repayment of his gambling debts.
Now it’s emerged that Mr. Trudeau’s party received $118,000 in illegal donations from SNC-Lavalin, the company he desperately tried to help by interfering in the judicial process. The Prime Minister says that the Liberals repaid the $118,000 they illegally accepted.
Could you tell us if the Prime Minister now intends to get the Liberal Party of Canada to boot out all those Liberal donors, like it did with Marc-Yvan Côté in the wake of the revelations of the Gomery commission?
I thank the honourable senator for his question. As the question implies, this is not with respect to government business, but I will certainly bring it to the attention of the Prime Minister.