Fellow Alberta cabinet minister calls for LaGrange to be removed amid health scandal [Video]

Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange is facing a renewed call to step down over allegations of high-level corruption in health contracts — but this time the call is coming from one of her own cabinet colleagues.

Infrastructure Minister Peter Guthrie, in a memo this week obtained and reported on by CBC, says LaGrange and the top civil servant in health, Andre Tremblay, should be moved to other jobs while the scandal is investigated.

Guthrie’s email, reportedly sent to his cabinet colleagues Thursday, said the gravity of the allegations requires Tremblay to be moved, LaGrange shifted to another cabinet portfolio and for the RCMP to be notified if there are potential concerns of criminal behaviour.

The Canadian Press has not seen Guthrie’s email but has asked Premier Danielle Smith’s office about it. Global News has also not seen it.

In an emailed statement Friday, Smith’s office does not challenge the veracity of the memo but …