Julie Couillard bags another Tory.The tangled web involving former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier's ex-girlfriend has ensnared another federal cabinet member.
Public Works Minister Michael Fortier dismissed senior Quebec adviser Bernard Côté yesterday after it emerged Côté had a romantic relationship with Julie Couillard last year.
Given the dates involved, it sounds as if there might have been some overlap between L'affaire Bernier and L'affaire Cote.
In any case, is Public Works Minister Michael Fortier the next domino to fall?
Last April, La Presse reported, Couillard attended a fundraising cocktail party in Châteauguay-Saint-Constant, a riding on Montreal's south shore, making a $1,000 contribution to the party.
Le Devoir reported yesterday that Fortier was at the party.
The event's organizer told the paper that Couillard handed him a Kevlar business card at the cocktail party, but that he remembered her mostly because the $1,000 cheque bounced.
She stiffed the CPoC for $1,000 and nobody cared!
A while ago at Dawg's Blawg I suggested the possibility that she could be a recruiter for organized crime. Doesn't it sound a bit like she was fishing for politicians?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there are plenty of women fishing for politicians. This one's just got the media's attention.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, great title for this post.