{"id":10764,"date":"2025-11-19T17:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/we-have-nothing-to-hide-quebec-liberal-party-leader-speaks-out-on-alleged-vote-for-cash-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:16:42","slug":"we-have-nothing-to-hide-quebec-liberal-party-leader-speaks-out-on-alleged-vote-for-cash-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/we-have-nothing-to-hide-quebec-liberal-party-leader-speaks-out-on-alleged-vote-for-cash-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have nothing to hide\u2019: Quebec Liberal Party leader speaks out on alleged vote-for-cash scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-63467\">\n<div>\n<header>      <\/header>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/thegitchemanitou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/63467-we-have-nothing-to-hide-quebec-liberal-party-leader-speaks-out-on-alleged-vote-for-cash-scheme.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018we-have-nothing-to-hide\u2019:-quebec-liberal-party-leader-speaks-out-on-alleged-vote-for-cash-scheme\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>\u2018We have nothing to hide\u2019: Quebec Liberal Party leader speaks out on alleged vote-for-cash scheme<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>MontrealTexts revealed by the Journal de Montr\u00e9al suggest party members were paid to vote for Pablo Rodriguez in the last Quebec Liberal Party leadership race.Texts revealed by Journal de Montr\u00e9al suggest party members were paid to vote for him in leadership raceH\u00e9nia Ould-Hammou  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Nov 19, 2025 11:35 AM EST | Last Updated: 15 minutes agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Pablo Rodriguez, leader of the Quebec Liberal Party. (CBC)The Quebec Liberal Party continues to be shaken by turmoil, with leader Pablo Rodriguez ordering an investigation into alleged text messages revealed by the Journal de Montr\u00e9al that suggest party members were financially rewarded for voting for him in the last leadership race.Speaking to journalists at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, Rodriguez said he found out about the alleged text messages for the first time this morning, upon reading the Journal article.\u201dWe have nothing to hide, I have nothing to hide,\u201d Rodriguez told reporters.\u201dWe don\u2019t even know if these text messages are real or not.\u201d In a written statement earlier this morning, Rodriguez told the media he asked the president of the party to commission an external and \u201ccompletely\u201d independent firm to conduct a full investigation, analyze the facts and establish the necessary conclusions. \u201cThe allegations published today are serious,\u201d Rodriguez wrote. \u201cWe take this situation extremely seriously and want to shed full light on this.\u201dThe Journal de Montr\u00e9al said it consulted messages exchanged last spring between \u201ctwo individuals who were actively working to elect Mr. Rodriguez as leader.\u201dThe alleged text messages refer to the sale of membership cards and money spent to get people to vote for Rodriguez.MNAs speak out, deny any involvementAlice Abou-Khalil, CAQ MNA for Fabre, took to social media to clear her name.\u201dThis morning, in a column on 98.5, my name was mentioned,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI want to be clear: I have absolutely nothing to do with this story. The text messages revealed in the Journal de Montr\u00e9al article did not come from me.\u201dAbou-Khalil added that she would co-operate \u201cfully with any investigation.\u201dLiberal MNA for Chomedey Sona Lakhoyan Olivierfollowed suit, defending herself on social media as well. \u201cThis morning, my name was mentioned in connection with allegations circulating about text exchanges,\u201d wrote Lakhoyan Olivier on X. \u201cI categorically deny being the person involved in these exchanges, which may have been falsified in whole or in part and whose authenticity has never been proven by any independent source.\u201dMarwah Rizqy was suspended from caucus after what the Quebec Liberal Party described as a \u2018breach of trust.\u2019 (Sylvain Roy Roussel\/CBC)The controversy comes after Marwah Rizqy\u2019s suspension from the Liberal caucus on Tuesday. Rizqy was removed from her duties as parliamentary leader by Rodriguez after a \u201cbreach of trust,\u201d stated the Quebec Liberal Party in a statement. It was confirmed by Rodriguez that the \u201cbreach of trust\u201d relates to Rizqy, parliamentary leader since June, firing her chief of staff, Genevi\u00e8ve Hinse, and replacing her without consulting him beforehand.ABOUT THE AUTHORH\u00e9nia Ould-Hammou is a journalist with CBC Montreal. She previously completed an internship with La Presse after graduating from McGill University with a double major in political science and psychology. H\u00e9nia is interested in international and societal issues, community stories, soccer, politics and rap. Send her an email at henia.ould-hammou@cbc.ca   With files from Holly Cabrera and Radio-Canada<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We have nothing to hide\u2019: Quebec Liberal Party leader speaks out on alleged vote-for-cash scheme MontrealTexts revealed by the Journal de Montr\u00e9al suggest party members were paid to vote for Pablo Rodriguez in the last Quebec Liberal Party leadership race.Texts revealed by Journal de Montr\u00e9al suggest party members were paid to vote for him in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,1047,1],"tags":[116,1046],"class_list":["post-10764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-ontario","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-ontario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}