Transport Minister John Baird quietly designated Conservative MP Brian Jean as the government's exclusive gatekeeper to screen proposals for funding under the $1-billion Green Energy Fund, The Hill Times has learned.
But a review of the fund's government web page and news releases since the fund was established under the Tory economic action plan and since the first project was announced in May 2009 does not reveal any public statement about Mr. Jean's (Fort McMurray-Athabasca, Alta.) critical role.
Communications between Mr. Jean, Mr. Baird's Parliamentary secretary, and former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer and his business partner, Patrick Glémaud, a former Conservative Ottawa-Vanier candidate, are under investigation by the federal commissioner of lobbying. Mr. Jaffer and Mr. Glémaud approached Mr. Jean last year to promote three energy projects for funding under the federal government Green Energy Fund, but they did not register under the federal Lobbying Act.
Source: The Hill Times
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