Former head of Stephen Harper's Office wrote to the ethics Federal Commissioner in 2008 on then Prime Minister Counsellor Bruce Carson, now under investigation for alleged and illegal influence peddling pressures, CBC News has learned.
Sources say CBC high aid that Harper, Guy Giorno, wrote at least two official letters on Carson to the Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson in only a few months.
Giorno is currently the Director of national election campaign of the conservatives.
Shortly after Il Giorno contacted the Commissioner ethics, sources said, a third letter on Carson was sent to Dawson, one of a Senior Deputy Minister in the Harper Government.
All three letters preceded the current problems of Carson by two years.
Last month, the Office of the Prime Minister called in the police to investigate the allegations of pressure Carson may have illegally on Government in 2010 a company of filter water using his girlfriend, a former prostitute for 22 years.
In this story, Harper and his executives all said that they had no prior idea there was nothing amiss on Carson.
Relative hail of mail to the Commissioner the ethics on Carson in 2008 adds another bizarre twist to the saga the conduct of the convicted fraudster who became one of the advisors of confidence of Harper.
The fact of two of these letters came from Harper and then Chief of staff is also bound to raise new questions about how the Prime Minister was aware of his former assistant.
Harper said that he is only aware that Carson had been sent to prison and removed from the bar as a lawyer for fraud more than 30 years.
The Prime Minister said he was under the impression Carson had become since a honest citizen with an exemplary career in politics and Government.
In fact, at the time that Carson became a Senior Advisor for Harper in 2006, he had been convicted on an another three counts of fraud, had been bankrupt twice and was several times behind his taxes up to and including the time that he worked in the Office of the Prime Minister.
Exactly what prompted former Chief of staff of Harper to communicate with the Commissioner of ethics on Carson in 2008 remains a mystery.
Giorno has not responded to requests for an interview, and the Ethics Commissioner is prohibited by law to discuss the details of this correspondence.
However, in a written response to the CBC, Dawson Jocelyne Brisbois spokesman said that in cases like this, the Commissioner would have responded directly to the author, namely Giorno.
The subject of a letter, Carson in this case, may also be copied on the correspondence "is it y utility by.".
Brisbois said: "there is no obligation for the Commissioner copy the Prime Minister."
One thing that is a secret in official circles in Ottawa in 2008 has been intense dislike of Giorno Carson.
The feeling was obviously mutual, with a long history of animosity between the two dating to their days at Queens Park.
At the time wherever giorno took over as Chief of staff in early summer 2008, Carson had been a senior advisor of Harper policy during almost four years, first in opposition, and then in the Government.
Almost immediately after the arrival of Giorno to CMP, it converts Office of Carson in a common room for junior staff members.
Carson soon left to become head of a newly created in Calgary reflection group called the Canada School of energy and the environment.
The Agency was set up as a corporation, private and fully funded by a grant from the Federal Government $ 15 million.
Carson had barely unpacked his bags in Calgary when Harper called the 2008 election and insisted his return of confidence to travel on the plan of campaign Adviser.
Sources say that it was the likely return of Carson during the campaign that triggered the first letter of Giorno Ethics Commissioner.
As soon as the campaign was over, Carson returned to Calgary to resume his position at the Institute.
But six weeks later, he was back in the PMO Advisor Harper during the crisis of the coalition who threatened to overthrow the newly elected Conservative Government.
Sources say that it is this period that giorno wrote again to the Ethics Commissioner.
Documents show Carson officially left the PMO to well about two months later, on February 4, 2009.
Carson returned to the Institute of Calgary who was supposed to be a coordinating body for clean energy research.
Almost immediately, Carson rewritten the mandate of the Agency of an Institute of research for a centre dedicated to promoting the oil sands of Alberta, and help the Harper Government to navigate on the issue of climate change politically treacherous.
Sources say that Carson was also officially hired as Advisor unpaid for the Federal Ministry of the environment.
This is the third letter on Carson landed on the Office of ethics and federal conflict of interest Commissioner.
This missive was the Deputy Minister of the environment, Ian Shugart.
He refused to comment on.
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