Ex-Quebec deputy premier Normandeau rips up Liberal membership card
QUEBEC — Former Quebec deputy premier Nathalie Normandeau said Tuesday the province’s anti-corruption unit has declared war on her.
On her first day of work for Quebec City radio station BLVD FM, the ex-cabinet minister ripped up her membership for the provincial Liberal party.
Normandeau is charged with conspiracy, corruption, breach of trust and fraud in an alleged scheme in which police say political financing and gifts were exchanged for lucrative government contracts between 2000 and 2012.
“I never committed a criminal act,” she told her listeners. “I am not guilty of what I am being charged.”