P.E.I. premier denies suggesting use of private email to circumvent freedom of information
CBC
The person suing the P.E.I. government for $150 million in a breach-of-contract case has filed notice of another pending lawsuit — this one naming Premier Dennis King.
Documents submitted in P.E.I. Supreme Court Friday on behalf of Paul Maines and 765686 Canada Inc. allege King was involved in discussions and meetings in May 2021 around a proposal from an online gaming company.
Furthermore, the documents allege, King advised those involved to use his personal rather than government email address to communicate with him "in order to specifically ensure that Paul Maines, as well as other members of the public… could not obtain information about their correspondence and discussions about Gamesys through the [freedom of information] process."
The claims made in the documents are allegations that have not been tested in court.
But in an affidavit also filed in court Friday, King denied he had attended the meetings in question and said he had not sent or received emails as referenced in the initial court filing.
"I have never stated to any individual that a non-governmental email account ... should be used to ensure that Paul Maines and Kevin Arsenault could not obtain information under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act," King states in the affidavit.
Arsenault ran against King for the leadership of the P.E.I. Progressive Conservative party in 2019, in the lead-up to the provincial election that made King premier.
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