Former Alberta justice minister to face sanction hearing for call to police chief over traffic ticket
Alberta’s law society is to hold a hearing Monday to sanction former provincial justice minister Kaycee Madu.
Madu was found guilty of misconduct last year when, as justice minister in 2021, he phoned Edmonton’s police chief after receiving a traffic ticket.
Madu was issued the ticket for distracted driving on March 10, 2021 by an Edmonton police officer. The officer said Madu had his cellphone in his hand while driving in a school zone.
Madu then called Edmonton police Chief Dale McFee to discuss the $300 ticket.
Madu told a hearing last year he didn’t call McFee about the ticket, but was looking for reassurance that he wasn’t being racially profiled or illegally surveilled.
A panel of law society members determined that while Madu didn’t ask McFee to do anything about the ticket, he did try to use his position of power to influence a personal issue.
In a hearing report published last October committee members said Madu is guilty of conduct worthy of sanction, although a punishment has yet to be determined.
The society, which regulates lawyers in the province, said his actions were irresponsible and it was Madu’s responsibility as justice minister to set an example for lawyers in the province.
Madu has been working as a lawyer in a private practice since leaving government and he could be facing a suspended licence or disbarment.
Madu was removed from the justice portfolio by then-premier Jason Kenney after news of the phone call was made public in 2022. However, Kenney would later make Madu labour minister, and Madu briefly served as deputy premier under Danielle Smith.
He lost his 2023 re-election bid in the Edmonton-South West riding to NDP candidate Nathan Ip, and has been working in private practice since.
McFee finishes his tenure as Edmonton police chief this month and is set to begin a new job as as the Alberta government’s top civil servant on Feb. 24.
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