“The government’s response to the recommendations of the commission is, thus far, unsatisfactory,” concluded the first report of the public monitoring committee on the Charbonneau Commission. […]
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Payback Time: Corruption, Collusion, and Compensation in the Aftermath of the Charbonneau Commission
Corruption is something as intrinsic to the City of Montreal as the Jazz Festival, fine cuisine, and frivolous disputes over the language of commercial signage. […]
The Montreal Mafia’s new tactic
Forget The Sopranos, The Godfather even Goodfellas. Forget guns and sleeping with the fishes. The Montreal mob has a new weapon in their arsenal. It’s […]
Bombshells left and right at hearings into political corruption in Quebec
The picture pained by Duchesneau and his colleagues this week is of municipal and provincial political parties where corruption is not the exception, but the rule. They outlined a political system driven by illegal contributions, where corruption is known about and encouraged at the highest levels
Charbonneau Commission begins inquiry without participation of the Liberal Party of Quebec
When the Charbonneau commission opens this week dozens of witnesses will testify and be cross examined by representatives from groups as diverse as Hydro Québec to hard core provincial lefties Québec Solidaire. The only oddity with the proceedings will be the conspicuous absence of a single representative from Liberal Party of Quebec. This is rather like having the O.J. Simpson trial without ‘The Juice’ (as he’s sometimes called), testifying before the court. After all, the whole purpose of this inquiry is to establish whether there is any connection between the awarding of juicy pork barrel government construction contracts (corruption never tasted so good!) and the financing of political parties in Quebec…