Liberals are calling on insurance regulators in Saskatchewan to investigate Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, who claims to have been an insurance broker before making the leap into politics, but whose qualifications to do so are today challenged.
"Andrew Scheer appears to have publicly and repeatedly misrepresented to Canadians that he has already been an insurance broker in Saskatchewan," Liberal MP Marco Mendicino wrote in a letter sent to, among other things, the President of the Insurance Board of Canada. Saskatchewan.
The Liberals were responding to Saturday's report in The Globe and Mail, which indicated that Andrew Scheer never had the required license to be a real estate broker in that province.
On the defensive, the Conservative leader reiterated Saturday that he was an insurance broker before becoming a member of Parliament in 2004.
"I did receive my certification under the Insurance Brokers Association of Canada (CAIB) program, I left before the licensing process was finalized," he said. declared.
Joined by QMI Agency as a result of these allegations, the President and CEO of the Insurance Brokers Association of Saskatchewan stated that it is possible to work as an insurance broker without being a licensed broker, but that work is then limited. People may have a CAIB designation, as Mr. Scheer says, without a license.
Presumably, these explanations did not satisfy the Liberals.
"The Saskatchewan Insurance Act makes it clear that an insurance broker must have a license and that falsely appearing as a licensed broker is a serious offense that can lead to heavy penalties," reads Marco Mendicino's letter on Sunday. , who is seeking a second term in Eglinton-Lawrence, Ontario.