A retired Superior Courtroom choose who investigated a textual content message scandal that helped convey down former Quebec Liberal chief Pablo Rodriguez has reached few agency conclusions.
Jacques R. Fournier says it’s not possible to say whether or not the messages, purportedly concerning the 2025 Quebec Liberal management race, are actual or fabricated.
The Liberals mandated Fournier to analyze shortly after Le Journal de Montréal printed textual content messages in November suggesting some occasion members who had voted for Rodriguez within the management race might have acquired money rewards.
Rodriguez resigned in December following a separate report in Le Journal de Montréal claiming that round 20 donors to his management marketing campaign acquired envelopes containing $500 in money to reimburse their donations throughout a fundraising occasion in April.
Fournier says in his report there may be nothing to recommend Rodriguez was conscious of alleged fundraising irregularities.
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Nevertheless, Fournier says “it seems” the April fundraising occasion violated Quebec’s Election Act, including that he wouldn’t remark additional because the case is below a felony investigation.
Quebec’s anti-corruption police introduced in December a felony investigation of the occasion with out giving particulars.
Rodriguez, who had stepped down after six months as chief, welcomed Fournier’s report.
“His report clearly demonstrates that my staff and I by no means took half in or witnessed any misconduct in the course of the management race,” Rodriguez wrote in an X put up.
The Liberals are holding one other management race, with Charles Milliard as the one official candidate forward of Friday’s software deadline.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Feb. 11, 2026.
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