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New Democratic Party MP Pat Martin has asked ethics commissioner Mary Dawson to investigate a payment from a lawyer acting for a Manitoba first nation to a company owned by the wife of former federal minister Vic Toews.

A trust account ledger included in court documents shows transfers of $966,500 to a numbered company owned by Stacey Meek for “strategic advice” from a joint venture funded by the Peguis First Nation.

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Friday, the lawyer who created the ledger said he only paid Ms. Meek’s company less than $50,000, blaming a “transcription error” for the documents showing larger transfers.

Ms. Meek, Mr. Toews’ spouse, contacted the Winnipeg Police Service Thursday after the National Post asked her about court documents showing an apparent transfer of $966,500 to her company for “strategic advice” from a joint venture funded by the Peguis First Nation.

Jeffrey Rath, the band’s former lawyer, had hired Mr. Toews to lobby Manitoba’s NDP government on behalf of the joint venture between Peguis and the Manitoba Jockey Club, a commercial development at the Assiniboia Downs horse racing track in Winnipeg.