 Duhaime filed a defamation suit in 2005 and Mulcair was ordered to pay $95,000, plus legal costs.In 2010 the provincial police anti-corruption squad in Quebec investigated the then sitting Mayor of Laval, Quebec, Gilles Vaillancourt, for allegations of bribing several provincial politicians.The probe contacted Mulcair to discuss a suspected bribe offered to him in 1994.