MP charged with refusing breath sample won’t get police radio calls

EDMONTON – An Edmonton MP will not be getting access to all police radio communications on the night he was arrested for refusing to provide a breath sample.

Judge Larry Anderson ruled there was no evidence to suggest that the large volume of calls that night had anything to do with the case against Peter Goldring.

The 15-year MP for Edmonton-East is to go on trial Jan. 16 on a charge of refusing to provide a breathalyzer sample after he was stopped leaving the parking lot of a north end sports bar last December.

Goldring was re-elected most recently as a Conservative but has sat as an Independent since shortly after his arrest.

Officers have told the court Goldring was acting in a belligerent manner and tried to negotiate his way out of stop.

None of those allegations have been proven at trial and Goldring’s lawyer says he plans to file a Charter of Right’s challenge to the arrest on Friday.