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A hero was born last September, when Jacques Duchesneau’s report for the Quebec transport department on construction collusion was leaked to the media (by Duchesneau himself, he recently revealed.) After Duchesneau concluded testifying on the pervasiveness of “dirty money” in Quebec politics last June before the Charbonneau Commission, created as a result of his leak, people approached him in public to encourage him to run for office.They got their wish on Sunday, when François Legault introduced the anti-corruption crusader as a candidate for Legault’s fledgling Coalition Avenir Québec party. http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Duchesneau+potential+game+changer/7049185/story.html
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Jacques Duchesneau presently states that the Quebec government, the Parti Quebecois and the City of Montreal lawyers are all now corrupted, bad but why did he leave out his fellow police offciers who had let the corruption go on the last 50 years at least
A report by French-language Radio-Canada said provincial police cancelled a surveillance operation , the report cited anonymous sources suggesting police get cold feet when an operation gets too close to the government. Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/charest-considers-suing-over-corruption-allegation-
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According to PQ MNA Bernard Drainville, a questionable real estate deal involving a piece of land on the south shore could link the Liberals with the controversial Catania Construction company. He claims that at least $40,000 in political contributions from Catania was rewarded with the $600,000 sale of land by the Riverside School Board to the company. According to Drainville, the deal was approved without public tender by then Education Minister Michelle Courchesne. At the time of the announcement, the Liberals also pledged $3.8 million in public funds to support the project. The community centre was never built. Instead, the company re-sold the land, to a condo developer for about $1.5 million. The PQ alleged that Catania made $1 million in profit. “It is not normal again that the Liberal interest is more important than the public interest. It is not normal that Catania is making $1 million in less than a year, while our school boards are crying for money and the south shore community is asking for a new community centre,” said PQ MNA Bernard Drainville.“Why is it yet again that the friends of the Liberal Party are cashing in on public money while all these public needs that need to be fulfilled.”
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What this not the first time Jean Charest’s government was accused of favoritism? Similar allegations were made in a damning report by Jacques Duchesneau, the former head of anti-corruption squad. All of those allegations are before a public inquiry being led by Justice France Charbonneau. The findings from that commission will be released about two weeks after Quebecers vote-in a new government. The Liberal timing of of the election took this into account?
Read more: http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/pq-alleges-favouritism-from-liberals-in-bad-real-estate-deal-
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