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Treasury Board President Sam Hamad said he will not heed opposition calls for his resignation in the wake of a report Thursday night by Radio-Canada’s investigative program Enquête.

“I have nothing to reproach myself for,” Hamad said late Thursday evening in a telephone interview with the Montreal Gazette. “I did my job as an elected official. I never intervened in a decision by Investissement Québec. Never.”

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Opposition parties called on Hamad to resign or for Premier Philippe Couillard to immediately remove Hamad from cabinet after the Radio-Canada report was aired.

The report claimed Radio-Canada had obtained email exchanges that suggest Hamad fed sensitive cabinet information to Marc-Yvan Côté in 2010, when Côté was vice-president of the board of directors of Premier Tech, a company seeking financial support from Investissement Québec, a government agency offering loans and loan guarantees to Quebec businesses.