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Nipawin - December 17, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis | |
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Last February, when we realized that the Human Resource Development Canada (HRDC) |
department mismanaged some $1-billion, Denis Desautels, the Auditor General, stated that | |
this problem had to be fixed right away. And I commented that there was no way you can | |
fix a problem affecting the mismanagement of $1-billion and that this problem was a | |
textured social problem requiring transformational changes of our political, bureaucratic, | |
business and justice leadership(1). In his October's reports, Denis Desautels has confirmed | |
the extent of the lack of accountability of the HRDC department(2) and highlighted the need | |
to reestablish integral values in our bureaucracy(3). | |
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Mulroney's government |
Lately, I have been writing about Jean Chrétien's personal intervention for the granting of a |
federal loan to his friend Yvon Duhaime, and I am realizing that the extent of governmental | |
corruption is becoming larger and larger. And I am now becoming aware that the Chrétien's | |
government has been following the path laid out by the Mulroney's government(4), a planned | |
path characterized by corrupted business lobbyists swindling money from public agencies. | |
And now I can rationalize why in the last decade our growth in real GDP per capita has been | |
second-last out of 25 industrial economies(5). Therefore, it is not a surprise anymore to find | |
out that some of Jean Chrétien's friends are being charged for theft and fraud. And the names | |
of Mario Pépin and Paul Lemire keep propping up in the news again and again. | |
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Groupe |
We must acknowledge Alliance's Diane Ablonczy for her painstaking work in uncovering |
and speaking out on the abuses of this government. We have been mentioning how Mario | |
Pépin and Paul Lemire used their former agency, Groupe Force, as an umbrella organization | |
to create more paper businesses, and pocket money with the assistance of the HRDC, Industry | |
Canada and other governmental agencies(6). | |
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LaPrade |
Today, we have knowledge that Pépin and Lemire were the administrators of a so called |
LaPrade Fund in Chrétien's Shawinigan riding, and that documentation has been provided | |
directly to the RCMP questioning the whereabouts of $343,000 of federal money provided | |
to the LaPrade Fund(7). The scheme to set a group of interrelated businesses receiving money | |
from both the HRDC and Industry Canada was not an original 'competitive advantage' of the | |
Shawinigan pair. | |
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Transelec |
In fact, we already showed how Claude Gauthier, another Chrétien's friend, after buying a |
property adjacent to Chrétien's golf course was able to get some $1.2 million for his business | |
Placeteco from HRDC; a contract worth $6.3 million for another of his business, Transelec, | |
from the Canadian International Development Agency; and $600,000 grant for another of his | |
businesses. | |
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pattern |
This is what we know. I am questioning what we don't know, and this is what scares me. I |
am afraid that this pattern of setting pyramidal paper interrelated businesses with the planned | |
assistance of governmental agencies is widespread across the country and at any level of | |
government. | |
-------------References/endnotes: | |
List of relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign | |
Thoughts on our Governments and Justice System in Canada, by Mario deSantis, February 15, 2000 | |
2000 Report of the Auditor General of Canada, Chapter 2 - Human Resources Development Canada - Service Quality at the Local Level, | |
2000 Report of the Auditor General of Canada, Chapter 12 - Values and Ethics in the Federal Public Sector | |
On the take, (The Mulroney's years) by Stevie Cameron, February 1995, Macfarlane Walter & Ross; ISBN:0921912730 | |
Reducing taxes key to reducing strain on competitiveness, Neville Nankivell, April 25, 2000 National Post. Personal note: Mario deSantis is not of the opinion that the reduction of taxes, per se, stimulate economic and social growth. | |
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's involvement with the BDC's $615,000 loan. Part 5. Mr. Gauthier, Chrétien's golf course, and the pair Pépin & Lemire Co. By Mario deSantis, December 10, 2000 | |
RCMP asked to launch new probe, Lawrence Martin, December 13, 2000, Southam News |