Trevor Holder, then New Brunswick’s environment minister, is shown in Saint John in 2006.CINDY WILSON/The Canadian Press
A former tourism minister in New Brunswick says he was not approached or pressured to deviate from a policy of making guest lists to a provincially owned fishing lodge available to the public.
Trevor Holder's comments come after questions were raised about a trip taken by an editor at a newspaper in Moncton.
The ombudswoman for the chain of papers owned by Brunswick News Incorporated says two senior editors at the Times and Transcript are no longer with the company.
An internal investigation at the paper alleges one editor visited the lodge in 2013 and then, along with another editor, tried to have his name removed from a guest list.
Patricia Graham says Murray Guy, assistant managing editor at the Times and Transcript, has resigned and managing editor Al Hogan is no longer employed by Brunswick News.
Holder says the Progressive Conservative government put in place a policy that required guests to sign a consent form allowing their name to be released if they visited the lodge.
Holder says he believes the process was followed and supports a review by the current Liberal government.