I’m beginning to understand why all the Canadian gangsters in television shows are french-speaking.
…and the construction workers go on strike. I’m sure it’s totally unrelated, though.
I’m beginning to understand why all the Canadian gangsters in television shows are french-speaking.
…and the construction workers go on strike. I’m sure it’s totally unrelated, though.
Last month Gilles Vaillancourt, mayor of a Montreal suburb Laval was arrested. This month it is Montreal’s mayor. Let’s see next month who gets to become Her Majesty‘s guest.
Mayors are innocent until proven guilty.
Except in Toronto.
As to media fairness, I am sure there is a video of Marg Delahunty at Applebaum’s house.
Unless, you know, the video just disappeared.
” …”We can no longer tolerate these reprehensible acts committed towards the management of our public institutions,” said Robert Lafreniere, head of the provincial police anti-corruption squad. …”
So, up ’til now, they have been tolerating those reprehensible acts.
McGuinty, McGwynnety (Kim Dong Wynne) and the rest of the Ontario Libranos need to be locked up too.
Add Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin Jr to the list while you are at it.
Since when does “failed CPC candidate” equal “former member of the Harper government”?
Excuse me: “former employee of the Harper government” not “member”.
Corruption, the black market, private deals are the basic economic mode in Quebec.And it’s huge. At all levels, provincial and municipal and in all businesses, in all towns and cities.
The first key agenda is to avoid taxes. All taxes.
The second key agenda is to ‘spiff the Outsider’, ie, to get as much extra money as you can from non-Quebec individuals and businesses. Prices will be increased, extra charges will be added on, the quality of goods and work will be decreased drastically while the costs will be increased.
The third key agenda is kickbacks. That is, if you get the contract, then, you’ll have to pay for it, via cash or goods or services to whoever got you that contract.
Again, corruption and the black market is the basic default economic mode in Quebec. After all, their basic economic and costly social needs are all dealt with, financially, by the ROC and the federal govt. So, Quebec luxuriates in its own isolate corruption.
Oh, and so the unions are on strike? So? They are a basic component of this corruption, linked directly to the govt. And after all, in two weeks, they go on their mandatory two weeks (Paid!!) annual vaction, the first two weeks of July when all construction stops in Quebec. So, this strike won’t harm their pocket books one teeny bit.
I blame Alberta.
If it wasn’t for their equalization payments there would be a lot less cash in brown paper bags being passed around.
No video!
Surely Gawker and a couple of guys from the Star have seen a video of all of this…because that is how it’s done.
This police work they speak of, nothing compared to real media digging hard.
I want the video!
Oh. This is what the CP’s reference was to:
http://bcblue.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/james-moores-ex-ministerial-aide-criminally-charged-for-montreal-corruption/
That’s just business as usual in Quebec. I had first hand experience of this when I was in university and what I thought was a simple matter of just buying a large quantity of wine for a university function turned out to be considerably more complicated. The student from Quebec who was also involved made sure that a relative of his who drove a taxi was made available to us for making our trips in Hull where, as he claimed, the wine was of far better quality than Ontario. Then, the van we needed to transport the wine to Ottawa was rented at a significantly higher price than a local vehicle rental agency from yet another relative of his. Of course there was also skimming off the top of wine for “the organizers” which I was told was expected and the net result was that we had significantly less wine than I had initially budgeted for.
It seemed a bit suspicious but I was reassured that this was the way that business was done in Quebec and that everyone was doing it. This was in the early 1970’s and it appears that it’s just been business as usual in Quebec. Makes me glad I no longer have to deal with such individuals and it’s strikingly similar to how business is done in Russia where the appropriate aparatchik’s need to be bribed. I’ve had Russian patients incensed because they don’t know who to bribe to get what they want done immediately. I guess I could tell them to move to Quebec where such “expedited” deals are a way of life.
Now why are we supporting this corruption to a tune of billions of dollars/year?
Since no one else has made this comment yet, I will. Yes, Quebec has a longstanding culture of corruption. But, you know what? They are aware of it, talking about it, and appear to be doing something about it. Meanwhile British Columbia, where I live, has a serious and increasing corruption problem that never makes the newspapers and is never discussed in election campaigns.
Yes but he is a much better dressed than Rob Ford, so he can’t be that bad?
Exurban;
Corruption exists across the country. It is simply more obvious in Quebec.
Half the ‘medical’ marijuana permits in the country have been issued in BC. Known fact that much of that dope is being sold. Nice little business. Society at large never got an opportunity to discuss or vote on legalizing it.
My suspicion for many years is that policing and politicans have been paid off to look the other way in what was a very lucrative ‘cash’ business. Billions of $’s in the drug business and the RCMP make a big deal out of a 500 plant bust. What a joke. The American government has the ability to listen to every phone conversation in North America but they cannot take down a drug industry that kills thousands. Really who cares if everyone is getting a little bit of the action.
Why do you think, Loki? The entire modern structure of Confederation is designed by and for the French Canadian elite, so they and theirs can use the tithes and taxes of the Protestants and Jews to spend their days drinking and whoring, and butcher their own children when the whoring goes wrong. The French Canadians are sluggards, thieves and traitors. They always have been.
I was just three weeks in Romania, seeing my wife’s family. Romania’s economy is actually growing, no thanks to the EU, and there a bottle of milk costs a Canadian dollar at most—which, in other words, is all it ought to cost. It did my heart good to see a country where people are thrifty and hardworking, know the difference between a need and a want, take the Christian faith seriously, are generous to a fault and take their duty to family seriously (rather than expect the state to do it for them), but treat thieves, beggars, and gypsies with the contempt they deserve—and know what to do with traitors and communists.
Of course, foreign banksters want cheap help at home and debt-peons abroad (as in Greece), not a proud, prosperous nation. So I was begged by the younger people for help getting into Canada, and they thinking that life was better here because they believed what they saw on TV stations owned and run by foreign banksters. I hadn’t the heart to tell them that the only difference between Quebec and Romania is that people pay three times in Quebec what they do in Romania for the exact same rent and groceries, leaving you worse off here than there. The corruption is worse the roads are worse, Montreal crawls with beggars, and more Muslims (and gypsies!) wash ashore every day. Me, I’d cheerfully trade in Montreal for Bucharest any day of the week—or rather the French Canadians for the white Romanians.