Hmm...
It's certainly good to see that the think tank here at Falling Downs isn't the only site sceptical about the Charbonneau Commission.
Frankly, we lost all faith in the Commission when they pulled that Donnie Brasco stunt. Yup, here's this government inquiry into corruption in the Quebec construction industry, and they pay to fly in this guy who wrote a memoir about his time in the New York City Mafia?
Thirty years ago???
That's when we knew the Charbonneau Commission was guilty of what they were accusing everybody else of; sucking too hard on the government teat.
But yes, they did manage to stretch things out for four long and lucrative years, and they did manage to shine the spotlight on those mostly irrelevant corners of "corruption" wherein some bikers and some Italian guys might have made a bit of pocket change.
Those are the folks who made it into the headlines now that the final report has been released.
The SNC Lavalin guys and Arthur Porter, both vetted at the highest levels in the PMO, who scammed the system beyond the wildest and greediest dreams of those Italian guys and the bikers, are totally lost in the fine print.
Nice cover-up, Madame Charbonneau!
And nice job stretching a redundant "inquiry" out to four long years and $45 millions!
I say we need another inquiry to get to the bottom of the Charbonneau inquiry...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Surprise! Quebec Corruption Inquiry "needs more time"
And why wouldn't they! After all, the commissioners have got themselves a pretty sweet gig, investigating dirty deeds in the Quebec construction industry.
It could take a while longer to get to the bottom of that; at least 18 more months according to the commissioners.
The commission has held hearings since last May and is burning through tax-payer dollars at better than a million a month. So far they have been focusing almost exclusively on guys with Italian names who carry money in their socks.
When you watch a bit of their schtick on TV it's pretty obvious that all concerned have watched multiple reruns of The Godfather.
The highlight of the hearings thus far has been the appearance of "Donnie Brasco," aka Joe Pistone, the FBI agent who infiltrated a New York City crime family over thirty years ago.
How would that qualify him to testify before a commission on corruption in Quebec thirty years later? Beats me, but I suspect the common thread may be those Italian names.
Meanwhile, there's non-Italian corruption showing up in la belle Provence too. Former Stephen Harper pal Arthur Porter is suspected of having skimmed tens of millions from a contract to build Montreal's new "superhospital" in collusion with the Francophone execs of Quebec's biggest infrastructure contractor, SNC-Lavalin.
It could take a while longer to get to the bottom of that; at least 18 more months according to the commissioners.
The commission has held hearings since last May and is burning through tax-payer dollars at better than a million a month. So far they have been focusing almost exclusively on guys with Italian names who carry money in their socks.
When you watch a bit of their schtick on TV it's pretty obvious that all concerned have watched multiple reruns of The Godfather.
The highlight of the hearings thus far has been the appearance of "Donnie Brasco," aka Joe Pistone, the FBI agent who infiltrated a New York City crime family over thirty years ago.
How would that qualify him to testify before a commission on corruption in Quebec thirty years later? Beats me, but I suspect the common thread may be those Italian names.
Meanwhile, there's non-Italian corruption showing up in la belle Provence too. Former Stephen Harper pal Arthur Porter is suspected of having skimmed tens of millions from a contract to build Montreal's new "superhospital" in collusion with the Francophone execs of Quebec's biggest infrastructure contractor, SNC-Lavalin.
Tens of millions?
How'd he even get those kind of sums into his socks?
How'd he even get those kind of sums into his socks?
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