Ralston MacDonnell says his firm's reputation has been hurt by allegations there wasn't proper scrutiny of federal monies allocated to run the port of Digby.
MacDonnell is the president of a company hired by a non-profit groupy in Digby to operate the port.
His firm has received $2 million of taxpayers money through a management contract which MacDonell says doesn't require his company to itemize or account for what it spends to anyone.
"The contract was a lump sum contract," MacDonnell explained to reporters. "What we spent on any one service or component was our affair."
In fact, MacDonnell says the only "books" he showed the non-profit society, dealt with their own salaries.
Conservative critic Bill Casey has been pushing Transport Canada to change that.
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At the same time MacDonnell's company was hired to manage the port, he put members of the society on the payroll at a cost of $250,000 each over 5 years.
MacDonnell estimates between $300,000 and $500,000 has been spent on physical improvements to the wharf, and he has a warning for Bill Casey, the politician he feels is responsible for his troubles.
"I really caution Mr Casey," MacDonnell warned. "He's created a significant amount of diffculty for our firm and unnecessarily so."
Concerns raised by an audit about possible ineligible expenditures prompted Ottawa to ask a court to cut off future cheques to the company running the port.
MacDonell says Transport Canada's allegations that the company set-up a management contract to evade scrutiny by Ottawa are unfounded.
