Mr. Speaker, well, he is not denying he said it now that he just realized that he accidentally blurted it out at a press conference.
He told the former attorney general that the headquarters would be gone if she did not immediately shelve the charges against that company. It was a falsehood.
It is impossible. The company is bound to stay in Montreal under a $1.5-billion loan deal with the Quebec pension plan. It just signed a 20-year lease and renovated its headquarters for its 2,000 employees there. It was completely false, yet he said it to try to get corruption charges dropped. Why?