A Crown attorney who's prosecuting two prominent Ontario Liberals on Election Act bribery charges says the province's energy minister is alleged to have ``sought certain benefits'' to run in a Sudbury byelection.
Liberals Pat Sorbara and Gerry Lougheed are alleged to have offered a would-be candidate a job or appointment to get him to step aside in the 2015 byelection so that the premier's preferred candidate could run.
That candidate was Glenn Thibeault -- now Ontario's energy minister -- who ultimately won the byelection for the Liberals.
Thibeault has said the premier did not offer him a cabinet position in exchange for running, nor did Sorbara make him any offers.