Woke up this morning,
Got myself a gun ...

Hope the gabagool is good.

Would you ride in a car, in Montreal with Benoît Labonté?

Maybe Canada's former ambassador to Denmark can head the investigation?

My father was in construction on the St. Lawrence Seaway way back in '59.

He has always joked that if you want to find out how Mexico works (ie corruption) you should learn in Montreal!!

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"

must be that superior culture we always here about

Jeez....!
File that one under "No Sh!t Sherlock"...................

Sadly, the cancer within Montreal probably isnt isolated to municipal politics.

In other places it took an outside force, usually a federal one, think Elliot Ness, to study and clean up something. I just dont know if you can do this.....wouldnt shock me at all if they were already well burrowed into the RCMP.

Come to Windsor,ON. the former home of "Crazy Joe "The Cigar" Bonanno" where mafia mansions abound.

"Liberal Politician from Quebec" is code.
"Explody" Joe Morselli translates;

""I lost my cool, to be sure, and my pressure rose to 180, that's for sure," Morselli testified. "If I had a bat I would have hit him with it."

Morselli was sensitive to cultural stereotypes, objecting to the use of the term "big boss" to describe senior Liberal organizers.

"All I want to say is that there are no `godfather' groups that come from this (northern) region (of Italy)," he said. "I'm Venetian and proud of it.'

Morselli denied Brault's allegation that he picked up the envelope Brault left on a restaurant table stuffed with $5,000 in cash. He did admit he had picked up cash other times and kept $5,000 for himself on one occasion.

"In other words, he had no compunction about irregularities of this kind," Gomery found in his report.

"It also establishes that the immorality of appropriating the property of another is of little concern to him."

Morselli started out working in restaurants in the 1960s before opening his first restaurant, Buffet Trio, in 1967 which he later parlayed into a string of cafeterias.

In the 1970s, Morselli became friends with accountant Alfonso Gagliano and forged a political and business partnership that saw both men become prominent school board members. Then Morselli persuaded Gagliano to run federally, where he eventually became a cabinet minister.

Morselli's business took off when he won a string of federal contracts to run cafeterias in several federal buildings.

In 1989, Morselli was the apparent target of a car bombing that remains unsolved. At the time, Morselli said he hadn't received any direct threat although he didn't discount the possibility the attack had something to do with his political activities."

Global police effort advised
Officials urging more coordination
Los Angeles Times / October 13, 2009

This is only related due to timing. The cops need to build their forces (the same as bureaucrats), and peddling fear is the best strategy they have. A willing media, toss in some news about drug cartels, and 'bam' - instant budget increases, and new rims for the F-150.

Besides, if one is genuinely looking for organized crime, one would start in Party politics...that's where the money seems to be ending up.

Think about the scale federally - with more than $200 billion spent (thanks Stephen) annually.

If you think this is confined to a single city, there is a turnip truck out there you just fell off of.

Only scrambled eggs could link the PM with Montreal's corrupt politics,you've gotta take those blinders off man,it isn't always about Stephen Harper.

h.ryan

I dont think anyone connected Harper to this, I would be shocked. As someone said, I dont think there has been a straighter arrow in 24 sussex since....I dont think Pearson and Dief were corrupt but they certainly turned blind eyes.

But its who is in the machine.....will this spill onto Fortier....no evidence or hints yet, but everything we suspect about Montreal politics is likely true....the majority of that is the Liberal machine and the PQ machine. The cons are trying to build their base around Quebec City and into the South Shore and the Saguenauy. I dont think they give a damn for Montreal.

I would love to see a strong investation but once again, without a majority government that doesnt owe Montreal then it will be difficult. Ideally a con majority with 10-15 seats from Beace, Outais and Saguunay would have the stones, and the interest, to turn over stones to find all of the worms.

Maybe I'm naive, and politics has always been like this, but it is our culture of "peace order and good government "that have made us the envy of the world and the place were everyone wants to live. When we are ready to accept a culture of corruption in our government and shrug it off as normal, we are lost as a culture. It is political and government corruption that makes the third world what it is. We are not immune from the same result.

When my father first came to Canada, he was apprised of the corruption and how blase the attitudes towards it were. Now it bothers people?

It is just not Montreal folks. My father(an immigrant from Italy who landed in 1955)worked in the construction industry in Ottawa for over 30 years.

Now that he has passed away, I feel free to say that he had no doubt about the criminality of the business he was in. He even once joked(after about 3 litres of Donini)that he knew where every body was buried in the Rideau Town Centre.

That would be in Ottawa folks. You know, our librano dominated nation's capital.

Two words.

Alfonso Gagliano.

'Twas ever thus. I remember a scandal back in the 1960's, when toll booth collectors on the Champlain bridge were found to be living in mansions. They were apparently working on the "one toll for the bridge, one toll for me" system.

wasn't it the mafia that supplied all that inferior concrete used to build the olympic stadium that fell apart?

good thing there aren't a lot of earth tremors in that part of the country . . .

Robert Bourassa was noteworthy for the level of corruption in his administration.

vive montreal !! vive quebec !! vive quebec libre !!

Is it just me or does anyone else have this in the file of blatantly obvious. In the same file is a reminder of where our federal transfer payments are going.

"""Maybe Canada's former ambassador to Denmark can head the investigation?"""

give me $500 for who is Dagliano:-)))))

and on topic, the cement mixer truck drivers union around TO has been known for their "mob" connections for years, as well as other construction unions, so no big surprizes here