OTTAWA—The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the influence-peddling conviction against former prime ministerial adviser Bruce Carson, effectively ending a sprawling legal saga involving the upper echelons of the former Conservative government that played out during the last federal election. The court ruled in an 8-1 verdict released Friday that Mr. Carson broke the law when he attempted to use his influence with government to secure contracts supplying water filtration units to First Nations communities on behalf of a company
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