Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's involvement
with the BDC's $615,000 loan |
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Nipawin - December 10, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis | |
motivation |
We continue with our search for understanding the motivations of Mr. Jean Chretien in doling |
out governmental money to his friends with criminal records. In one of our previous articles, | |
we mentioned the English definitions of fraud, ethics and abuse of power as they are | |
understood by common people(1). But the law applies more restrictive definitions of fraud, | |
ethics and abuse of power, and this is why the RCMP and judges always make reference to | |
the motivations of a person charged with criminal conduct. So, 'motivation' plays a very | |
important role in our justice system, and provides a sense of relationship to the related | |
actions which can be perceived, for example, as either fraud, or unethical or as abuse of power. | |
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job |
In our last article, we mentioned that Mr. Chretien personally approved a Transition Job Fund |
(TJF) grant for $600,000 to the Auberge des Gouverneurs hotel in Shawinigan(2), Chretien's | |
home town. And this hotel was owned by Pierre Thibauld, a self confessed criminal. Also, | |
we mentioned that Yvon Duhaime, received $1-million in HRDC grants to expand the | |
Grand-Mère Inn he bought from Mr. Chrétien; and I forgot to say that at that time | |
Mr. Duhaime had accumulated $330,000 in unpaid bills. We also mentioned that as | |
Mr. Duhaime received part of his job creation grant, he paid $11,500 to René Fugère, an | |
unpaid aide and Liberal supporter for Mr. Chrétien's riding of St-Maurice, for consulting | |
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services. |
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Influence |
I can say therefore, that one motivation for Mr. Chretien in doling out governmental money |
in his own riding of St. Maurice was to create new consulting jobs. And Ethics Counsellor | |
Howard Wilson has stated that there is nothing wrong for Mr. Chretien in helping out his | |
constituents, and Mr. Chretien has confirmed that his primary motivation to help his friends | |
in his riding was to create new jobs. And you know the title of these new jobs created by | |
Mr. Chretien? The title is "Consulting Services for Doling out Governmental Money." But | |
the RCMP has different titles for the jobs created by Mr. Chretien, the RCMP calls them | |
"Consulting for Influence Peddling" and "Consulting for Fraud and Theft." | |
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Groupe |
Yesterday, we have heard that two Shawinigan businessmen, Mr. Mario Pepin and |
Mr. Paul Lemire, have been charged for theft and fraud for stealing up to $300,000 from a | |
company they ran called Groupe Forces(3). Mr. Pepin and Mr. Lemire have been long time | |
supporters and friends of Mr. Chretien and Mr. Lemire even took a trip with the Prime | |
Minister on a trade mission to Asia in 1996. Further, Groupe Forces is the same agency | |
which invested in the Grand-Mere's expansion, and which was able to attract over | |
$4-million in government assistance for job creation. We will mention later, in another | |
article, that Mr. Pepin and Mr. Lemire were the founders of many agencies, all | |
interconnected and with the vision to pocket federal money and create more jobs for | |
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the RCMP. |
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job |
The saga of the Grand-Mere's Inn expansion and job creation program for the RCMP in |
Chretien's riding of St. Maurice will continue in our next articles. | |
------------References/endnotes: | |
List of relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign | |
The author can provide specific references of the cited events in the Grand-Mère's affair. He also acknowledges the following news organizations: National Post, Canadian Internet Network, The Ottawa Citizen, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Press. The author read articles written by Robert Fife, Andrew McIntosh, Joël-Denis Bellavance, Peter Shawn Taylor, Andrew Coyne, Gordon Gibson, and Diane Francis of the National Post; Paul Adams and Daniel LeBlanc of The Globe and Mail; Lawrence Martin and Kate Jaimet of The Ottawa Citizen. | |
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's involvement with the BDC's $615,000 loan: Lack of Common Sense Democracy, by Mario deSantis, November 30, 2000 | |
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's involvement with the BDC's $615,000 loan: Part 2: Thinking Recursively is a Creative Process, by Mario deSantis, December 7, 2000 | |
New charges laid against two Chrétien supporters, Andrew McIntosh, December 7, 2000, National Post |