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“I know how to make sure he doesn’t get his job back,” Polak quoted Plecas as saying in her notes.

He added later: “I’m not letting them get away with this.”

He said legal advice given to MLAs by labour lawyer Marcia McNeil (who helped sort out the government health firings scandal) was “a bunch of garbage.”

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Furstenau would neither confirm nor deny the notes were accurate when asked by reporters. She said it was a private meeting and she was disappointed Polak went public. Furstenau said there are lots of “rumour and innuendo” in the building, and political manoeuvring and she wanted to focus on the proper policies and procedures that should be in place for human resources.

Plecas denied some of the comments when asked earlier in the day by reporters.

“Are you kidding me?” he said. “That is absolutely ridiculous.

“You’ve heard what I said. I described her as an eminent jurist. I said her terms of reference were too narrow, that didn’t include everything that needed to be considered, it’s that simple.

“I had wished it could have been a broader terms of reference. I had wished she’d had a greater opportunity to follow up on some of the issues we said were important. I wish she had considered the witnesses we had put forward for consideration. That didn’t happen.

“Is there more to do? Absolutely. You know there is other investigations going on.”

Polak told reporters on Thursday that she made the notes during a three-hour meeting with Plecas in which she said he displayed “bullying” behaviour, kept hammering the desk with his hands and was shouting.