A former Alberta justice minister is to be sanctioned after the provincial law society determined he “undermined respect for the administration of justice” when he phoned Edmonton’s police chief after receiving a traffic ticket.
The Law Society of Alberta cited Kaycee Madu last year for the 2021 call, which occurred while he was justice minister, and a hearing took place in June.
In a hearing report published Tuesday, committee members said Madu is guilty of conduct worthy of sanction, although a punishment has yet to be determined.
Madu did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Madu maintained throughout the hearing that his call to Chief Dale McFee was unrelated to the distracted driving ticket, and he was phoning for reassurance the officer who issued him the ticket was not racially profiling him or illegally surveilling him.
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The committee’s report says it is accepted that Madu never explicitly asked McFee …