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The Parti Québécois is facing questions of its own about tax havens and corruption as integrity issues take centre stage in the provincial election campaign.

Pauline Marois said she knew nothing about an alleged auction among engineering firms in the 1990s in which firms bid on the rights to win public works contracts in certain territories, and then donated the money raised to the party in power at the time — the PQ.

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“I have never heard about any such thing, I know nothing about it, so I will not comment on it,” she said Saturday.

Coalition party head Francois Legault, who was a PQ minister in the 1990s, also said he did nothing wrong and added he found the media report troubling.

Liberal leader Philippe Couillard, long the whipping post of rival parties over Liberal fundraising activities during the provincial election campaign, jumped on the allegations, saying Marois and Legault, who were both in government at the time in question, should be forced to answer questions on the subject.