Harper balks at comparison between Shory and Guergis cases
Posted May 6, 2010 11:36 am.
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BERGEN OP ZOOM, Netherlands – Prime Minister Stephen Harper said you can’t compare the allegations against former junior cabinet minister Helena Guergis with those linked to one of his backbench MPs.
Alberta MP Devinder Shory is one of dozens of people named in a Calgary lawsuit alleging at $70-million mortgage fraud against the Bank of Montreal.
The RCMP have said they are in the preliminary stages of seeing whether a crime is involved.
Harper dumped Guergis from the Conservative caucus in March and asked the Mounties to look into unspecified concerns about her raised by a private eye.
Harper said the two cases are different.
He said Shory’s is a civil case and a private matter, and wouldn’t comment further.
Both MPs have said the allegations against them are false.
