Angry in the Great White North

[The story gets even more interesting. See this latest update for information about the corporate offices of Abotech.]

Liberal MP David Smith, representing the riding of Pontiac, is embroiled in a potential scandal, involving a company for which he was president, and that now he says he has no contact, but is run by his wife:

From the Strategis website run by Industry Canada, last updated April 4, 2005:

Now didn't David Smith say he severed all ties with Abotech? The federal government seems to be of a different opinion.

And no, it's not his son. David Smith has two children, Cynthia and Sebastien.

Now if the government had questions, or needed to contact Abotech about a contract, or even about the audit that is causing all the hubbub, according to the government's own database, the government would have gotten in touch with Liberal MP David Smith.

According to the database, David Smith is in charge of government relations. Which is funny, since he is a member of the government. I suppose relations are going just smoothly then.

And here's something cute:

Most recently, Mr Smith worked as a strategic planning officer for service integration at Public Works and Government Services Canada.

Wasn't PWGSC in charge of the Sponsorship Program?

Oh, yes it was.

Just one more thing -- for a computer consulting company, it seems odd that Abotech does not have a web presence, or it's own domain (note how David Smith is using a Videotron email account -- it's like the president of Nortel using his Yahoo account as his official email).

The company doesn't appear in the Yellow Pages.

The phone number doesn't track via the reverse phone directory.

Almost like the company doesn't really exist, except on paper.

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