Former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer has been charged with impaired driving and possession of cocaine, Ontario Provincial Police said Wednesday. Police said they stopped a Ford Escape that had been travelling at high speed through the village of Palgrave, Ont., northwest of Toronto. The officer who made the stop noticed the odour of alcohol on the driver's breath, police said in a press release. Jaffer is due in criminal court in Orangeville, Ont., on Oct. 19. His driver's licence has been suspended for 90 days. Jaffer, 37, is the husband of Helena Geurgis, the current Conservative party MP for the riding of Simcoe-Grey. First elected in the Alberta riding of Edmonton-Strathcona in 1997 as a member of the Reform party, Jaffer held the riding until his surprising defeat by an NDP candidate in the 2008 election.
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