As Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland was in the House of Commons distancing Ottawa from BC Ferries’ plan to buy four new ships from a Chinese state-owned shipyard, senior Liberal advisers were debating how to manage a looming announcement that there was in fact a connection.
Canada Infrastructure Bank, a federal Crown corporation, had provided $1-billion in financing for the purchase.
The Globe and Mail has obtained internal e-mails involving senior Liberal political aides, including one sent at 2:17 p.m. on June 18 just as the daily Question Period was about to start.
She’s only a little corrupt. I wonder what her cut was? What was Carney’s take?
