Alberta Premier Alison Redford has been cleared by the legislature Speaker of allegations that she deliberately misled the house about her role in awarding a government contract to her ex-husband's law firm.
Speaker Gene Zwozdesky, in a ruling delivered Monday, said there is no clear evidence Redford made false statements to the house when she denied making the decision to pick the law firm that includes her ex-husband, Robert Hawkes.
"This is getting into a case of semantics, but it is evident there was no final decision made as to the selection of a law firm for the tobacco litigation when the premier was minister of justice," Zwozdesky said.
Zwozdesky was ruling on a motion made last Thursday by the Opposition Wil-drose party to have Redford found in contempt of the legislature for making misleading statements.
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