Vic Toews met with Peguis lawyer about Kapyong settlement: Court documents – CBC
Mar 18, 2015
Toews resigned from cabinet and federal politics in July 2013
Within months of leaving cabinet, former treasury board president Vic Toews met with with a lawyer representing Peguis First Nation on several occasions regarding a settlement of the Kapyong lands, according to court documents.
“I think there are reasonable grounds to investigate this situation as a possible violation of the federal conflict of interest law,” said Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch and visiting professor at the University of Ottawa.
Conacher said federal conflict of interest rules prohibit former cabinet ministers from giving advice on or consulting about confidential information they found out while in government.
