Manitoba elections watchdog launches probe into alleged NDP deal, Tories say – CBC

Feb 25, 2016

OCN chief accused Eric Robinson of ‘agreement’ for Hydro work in exchange for supporting premier

Manitoba’s elections watchdog is investigating whether Eric Robinson, an NDP MLA and the province’s aboriginal and northern affairs minister, had struck a political deal with a northern First Nations chief, CBC News has learned.

The Progressive Conservatives wrote to Manitoba’s Commissioner of Elections, Bill Bowles, earlier this month, asking him to step in after a letter surfaced in 2015 from Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN) Chief Michael Constant, accusing Robinson of promising his band work on Manitoba Hydro’s Bipole III project if they supported Premier Greg Selinger.

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