A Conservative senator and his aide say they were told 18 months ago that Liberal MP Raj Grewal was under investigation for his prodigious casino gambling, and argue it is “unbelievable” that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office didn’t know at the same time.
And if the PMO knew then, they say, it should not have taken until last week for Grewal to resign his Toronto-area seat — and until this September for him to be shifted off the Commons finance committee.
Quebec Sen. Jean-Guy Dagenais and assistant Richard Desmarais say they were at an Ottawa reception in May of 2017 when a retired RCMP officer told them he had been informed about a probe of Grewal.
“(He) told us, ‘Just check this guy at the casino. He is spending a lot, he’s under inquiry, and something will happen,’“ Desmarais said in an interview Thursday. “He said, ‘You can go, you will see him, spending his money, he is under an inquiry’ … If the prime minister’s office didn’t know that, it’s unbelievable.”
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