Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu: Hervieux-Payette

Hervieux-Payette: Senator C line Hervieux-Payette is also objecting to Boisvenu's six-month delay in complying with a previous order from the ethics officer to either terminate his relationship with Isabelle LaPointe or end her employment in his office. , according to Huffington Post. Hervieux-Payette also points out that according to French-language newspaper La Presse, Boisvenu used his position as a senator to influence the clerk of the Senate and Senator David Tkachuk to further his private interests and those of a family member by arranging a job and extra time off for Lapointe. A Liberal senator has complained to the Senate ethics officer about Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu's attempt to arrange a Senate job and an extra two weeks of holiday time for his assistant with whom he had had a romantic relationship. In a letter to Senate ethics officer Lyse Ricard, Hervieux-Payette wrote: "It was not until the media reported these facts that Senator Boisvenu acted on the Senate ethics officer's recommendation. It was public pressure that actually forced him to comply." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.