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

Jaffer facing drunk driving, cocaine charges

BY Matthew Talbot, Staff September 16, 2009 16:09

Rahim Jaffer, husband of Simcoe-Grey MP Helena Guergis, has been charged with drunk driving and possession of cocaine.

Police stopped Jaffer, a 37-year-old Angus resident, on Sept. 11 on Regional Road 50 in Palgrave, about 15 kilometres north of Bolton. Caledon OPP say he was speeding north through the village in a grey Ford Escape at about 12:45 a.m.

Jaffer will be in Orangeville criminal court on Oct. 19 to answer the charges.

His license was suspended for 90 days.

Jaffer was elected MP for the Edmonton-Strathcona riding in 1997, a seat he held up until last year's federal election, when he lost to the NDP candidate.

Linda Duncan, Jaffer’s successor, was the only non-Conservative to win a seat in Alberta.

Jaffer was the first Muslim elected to Parliament when he was elected in 1997.

In 2001 he faced criticism after an aide impersonated him during a radio interview that he wasn’t able to attend. He was removed from his caucus position as a result, but was re-elected to Parliament in subsequent elections.

Jaffer and Guergis have been married for nearly a year. They wed the day after last year’s federal election.

Since losing his seat on Parliament Hill, Jaffer has been working with Green Power Generation Corporation, which focuses on business development for renewable and alternative energy technologies, according to Jaffer's website.

He has been spending time with Guergis in her hometown Angus this summer.

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