On the day it was voted out of office, the federal Liberal government agreed to subsidize Jean Pelletier's legal fight to overturn certain conclusions of the Gomery report, Montreal's La Presse reported Tuesday.
La Presse said it has obtained a copy of a letter dated Jan. 23 – election day – in which the then-president of the Treasury Board, Reg Alcock, committed Ottawa to pay up to $40,000 of Pelletier's legal bills in a Federal Court challenge of Gomery's findings.
The $40,000 would be in addition to about $565,000 in legal bills the government paid for Pelletier during the Gomery inquiry, the newspaper said.