http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/...exchanges.html
Rahim Jaffer, the former Conservative MP accused of unlawfully lobbying for government contracts, used one of his wife's parliamentary email accounts to contact the Industry Ministry last month about business on behalf of his friends, documents obtained by CBC News show.
Jaffer sent an email to an Industry Ministry official from an account registered to MP Helena Guergis, who at the time was the minister for the status of women. The message inquired about Canada's plans for installing new space satellites and about national ownership rules in that sector.
The information was requested "on behalf of some constituents who are friends of Helena and I," Jaffer wrote in the message. Jaffer hasn't been an MP since he lost his Edmonton-Strathcona seat in the October 2008 election.
In the email, he asks whether the federal government is interested in technology that allows satellites to track ocean vessels. If so, he says, it "would be positive for commercial development and MDA." MDA refers to MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, a B.C.-based aerospace firm that has built several government satellites.