Ontario Provincial Police have launched an investigation into allegations that a senior federal Conservative played a role offering an inducement to a mayoral candidate in Ottawa.

Former MP John Reynolds is named in a sworn affidavit from Terry Kilrea, who was a candidate for mayor in Ottawa's 2006 election.

Kilrea dropped out of the race in August last year.

He has claimed Mayor Larry O'Brien offered to pay his campaign expenses if he dropped out.

According to the affidavit, O'Brien also asked what would happen if Kilrea were offered a job on the National Parole Board.

The same affidavit names John Reynolds as the man who could make that happen.

Reynolds was the co-chair of the Conservative Party campaign in the 2006 federal election. He later retired from politics.

Reached in Gibsons, B.C., Reynolds said the allegations are totally false.

"It never happened … I don't know the man [Kilrea]. If I was to bump into him today, I wouldn't know what he looked like.

"I'm not concerned about it, other than I think people's names [get] dragged into something … something that never happened."

None of the allegations has been proven in court, and the OPP are still investigating.