Former Liberal transport minister Julie Boulet takes stand at corruption inquiry
MONTREAL – A sitting member of Quebec’s legislature is appearing before the province’s corruption inquiry.
Former Liberal transport minister Julie Boulet is the first active provincial politician to take the stand at the Charbonneau Commission.
Boulet was re-elected in last month’s provincewide vote but did not make it into Premier Philippe Couillard’s cabinet.
Boulet served as transport minister from 2007 until 2010 and before that was junior transport minister for four years.
A construction boss who was critical of political financing involving the transport minister’s office under all political parties mentionedBoulet’s name in his testimony this week.
Louis Marchand of Maskimo told the inquiry he declined an invitation from Boulet’s office to attend a $1,000 fundraiser and it earned him a call from Boulet herself to express her disappointment.
Boulet is being questioned by the inquiry’s chief counsel, Sonia LeBel.
She has sat in the legislature since winning a byelection in 2001.
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