CBC: Harper shrugs off new concerns about minister's ex-flame

[tuvor]

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not discuss security concerns about his foreign affairs minister's ex-girlfriend, despite a news report that raises fresh questions about her professional interest in public security.

Montreal newspaper Le Devoir reported Monday that Julie Couillard — who had links to the criminal biker underworld as late as 2005 — is the head of a high-tech firm that has been involved in airport security.

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On Monday, Harper refused to answer whether authorities had run a security check on Couillard. "I have no intention to comment on a minister's former girlfriend," he said. "I don't take this subject seriously."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/05/26/qc-berniercouillard0526.html

[daleo]

1. She's got the worst luck with boyfriends...

According to the reports, Couillard developed an interest in airport security because of her former boyfriend, Robert Pépin.
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Montreal newspaper La Presse reported Pépin owed large amounts of money to a lender linked to the Hells Angels and had been summoned to testify in front of the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), Quebec's securities regulator, when he hanged himself in 2007.