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Migicovsky confirmed her attendance at traffic court but maintained that “Ms. Bordeleau was not acting as counsel for her father but in attendance to assist her father in seeing if the matter could be resolved.”

Migicovsky added: “There was no conflict of interest.”

Multiple police sources told the Citizen that Chief Charles Bordeleau asked his own staff about the traffic court appearance. Bordeleau told the Citizen that he “was not present at traffic court” and he did not “intervene or discuss this file with anyone at the Ottawa Police Service.”

“I did ask a court staff member on the morning of Jan. 25 the name of the prosecutor to provide Lynda with a point of contact,” Bordeleau said. “However, she had already made contact with the prosecutor on duty.”

Bordeleau directed all other questions on the matter, including whether he believed there to be any conflicts, to Lynda Bordeleau, who he said could explain “why a daughter accompanied her elderly father to traffic court.”

On Jan. 25, in Provincial Offences Court at 100 Constellation Drive, the assigned prosecutor was Terry Callaghan. Callaghan is the wife of a former Ottawa police officer, the mother of two new recruits to the force, and sister of a former Ottawa police deputy chief.

She is married to former Ottawa police Insp. Mike Callaghan, who recently left his job at the Ottawa force to take a job with the Belleville Police Service that will see him become deputy chief next year. Their two sons are Ottawa police officers, one through policing college and on patrol and the other a new recruit who was hired on in the months before Mike Callaghan left for the Belleville force.