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Supreme Court hears Bruce Carson’s appeal on influence peddling conviction
By Marco Vigliotti Nov. 6, 2017
Bruce Carson is seeking to have his previous acquittal restored after the Ontario Court of Appeal found him guilty in February of trying to use his influence over the former federal Aboriginal Affairs department to sign off on a deal for water filtration devices with a company, H2O Pros, which employed his then girlfriend.
Former PMO adviser Bruce Carson, pictured on Sept. 14, 2015, arriving at the Elgin Street courthouse in Ottawa for the start of his influence-peddling trial. He was originally acquitted of that charge and then convicted on appeal earlier this year. The Hill Times photograph by Mike Carroccetto
OTTAWA—Former prime ministerial adviser Bruce Carson should have his conviction for influence peddling quashed because his work back in 2010-2011 to help an Ottawa-area firm sell water filtration units to Indigenous communities incorrectly targeted the federal bureaucracy, rather than individual First Nations themselves, his lawyer argued before Canada’s highest court on Friday.
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