OTTAWA - The Ottawa based federal lobbying watchdog says former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer and his business partner broke the Lobbyists' Code of Conduct.
Lobbying commissioner Karen Shepherd says Jaffer and Patrick Glemaud should have been registered as lobbyists when they contacted and met several government officials and Tory politicians about work their firm was doing.
Neither man was registered as a lobbyist for their own environmental consulting firm or for any other company with which they were negotiating.
The details of the contacts with government officials emerged in April 2010 after it was revealed Jaffer had been in business talks with a controversial Toronto businessman.
Jaffer's wife, former junior cabinet minister Helena Guergis, was dropped from the Conservative cabinet over allegations she helped to lend her husband's dealings an aura of connectedness.
That matter was referred to the RCMP, but the investigation was dropped and no charges were ever laid.
Lobbying commissioner Karen Shepherd says Jaffer and Patrick Glemaud should have been registered as lobbyists when they contacted and met several government officials and Tory politicians about work their firm was doing.
Neither man was registered as a lobbyist for their own environmental consulting firm or for any other company with which they were negotiating.
The details of the contacts with government officials emerged in April 2010 after it was revealed Jaffer had been in business talks with a controversial Toronto businessman.
Jaffer's wife, former junior cabinet minister Helena Guergis, was dropped from the Conservative cabinet over allegations she helped to lend her husband's dealings an aura of connectedness.
That matter was referred to the RCMP, but the investigation was dropped and no charges were ever laid.
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