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Simcoe-Grey MP Helena Guergis and her husband, former Edmonton-Strathcona MP Rahim Jaffer.

Guergis now under fire for Alberta mailer

BY Staff May 01, 2009 16:05

Simcoe-Grey MP Helena Guergis is coming under fire for yet another mailer, only this time it's in another province.

Hot on the heels of the controversy over a constituency newsletter sent out after the election writ was dropped, a columnist for the Edmonton Journal newspaper reported yesterday that Guergis had sent out pro-Conservative mailers to homes in the Edmonton-Strathcona riding.

The Alberta riding is the same one that Guergis' husband, Rahim Jaffer, represented prior to being defeated in the 2008 federal election.

In the column by Todd Babiak, some Edmonton residents said the mailer was a waste of money and questioned why it was sent and why it was sent by Helena Guergis, an MP who respresents a riding thousands of kilometers away in another province.

The mailer, similar to the ones the Conservatives were sending out prior to the election last year, reportedly raises a question as to which one of Canada's federal party leaders is doing the best job at protecting the Canadian public during the current economic uncertainty.

The column reported there is also a photo of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and gave residents the option to check a box beside the names of one of the four federal party leaders.

When contacted by the Herald Guergis' staff member Val Knight said she was unaware of the mailers. She said they didn't come out of the Simcoe-Grey constituency offices or from Guergis' staff in Ottawa.

"It would have gone out from the Conservative Party. The only thing that our office sends out is the 10 per center and the householder," she said.

Guergis was not immediately available for comment.

The original column in the Edmonton Journal can be read by clicking here: Edmonton Journal Column.

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