Soon after, she received the untendered contract from Treasury Board to prepare a communications plan for implementing the centrepiece of the Tories' election platform.
Treasury Board President John Baird later terminated the contract, admitting that the "optics are very bad," but denying that any "political actors" knew about it.
A spokesman for Mr. Baird said yesterday that Ms. Lapointe was paid for work she had done up until the contract was cancelled.
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