Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's involvement
with the BDC's $615,000 loan |
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Nipawin - December 11 - by: Mario deSantis | |
entertainment industry |
We have seen in our previous article(1), how Mr. Chretien's job creation program in his own |
riding of St. Maurice has expanded the service and entertainment industry by creating more | |
jobs in the area of "Consulting for Influence Peddling" and "Consulting for Fraud and Theft." | |
However, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has not been receptive to Chretien's job creation | |
program, and they have been busy in putting extra work and limiting the business role of | |
Chretien's consulting friends. Some of the governmental activities which helped to enhance | |
the RCMP's visibility into the role of Chretien's business consultants are described as follows. | |
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Doling of governmental money | |
Claude Gauthier |
In November 1997, Transelec, a company controlled by Gauthier, gets a $6.3-million contract |
from the Canadian International Development Agency, a deal later criticized by the federal | |
auditor general(2). This is the same Claude Gauthier, another loyal Chretien's friend, who in | |
1996, by buying a parcel of land adjacent to Chretien's golf course improved the course's | |
troubled finances. | |
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self |
In October 1997, Mr. Chretien was told that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was |
investigating the after effects of his doling of money and as a consequence he launched his | |
own self policing and private investigation against his own governmental practice to dole | |
money away to his friends. | |
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Transitional Jobs Fund |
Mr. Chretien asked his own direct subordinate Harold Wilson, Chretien's Ethics Counsellor, |
to probe the governmental disbursements of the Transitional Jobs Fund (TJF). Mr. Wilson | |
did a superb job by identifying in writing the corruption of the granting of TJF money, and | |
coincidently this occurred four or five days before the RCMP charged Pierre Corbeil, a | |
Liberal organizer in Chretien's riding of St. Maurice, of influence peddling for asking | |
companies seeking governmental grants to pay him money. Mr. Wilson identified a parallel | |
or a private system of vetting TJF grants operated beyond the scope of the bureaucracy(3). | |
Later, in 1998, Pierre Corbeil was convicted of demanding $30,000 in payments for his help | |
in securing job grants; and because Mr. Corbeil pleaded guilty there was never a criminal | |
trial and we cannot know the extent of criminal corruption in the governmental doling of job . | |
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grants |
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Personal Observation | |
dummy |
I am developing the understanding that the Ethics Counsellor, Howard Wilson, plays the role |
of a dummy buffer between the RCMP and Jean Chretien. And to say that the RCMP is run | |
by a Commissioner responsible to the Solicitor General of Canada, appointed by Jean Chretien. | |
So, while in the United States we have President Bill Clinton who has been impeached for a | |
peccadillo, we in Canada have Prime Minister Jean Chretien who personally doles governmental | |
money to his friends with criminal records, and he gets away with it. And the RCMP cannot | |
catch him for two reasons, first the RCMP has to contend with Chretien's private line of defense, | |
the Ethics Counsellor; and second the RCMP needs to have clearance by the Solicitor General | |
of Canada(4), Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, directly responsible to the Prime Minister. | |
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above |
Now, you tell me what kind of democracy this is. Jean Chretien is certainly above the RCMP, |
but could he be above the law? I have made up my opinion, and you can make yours, and if | |
you are not afraid as I am, maybe you can share it with your friends. | |
----------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, Part 3. Job Creation in Chretien's riding of St. Maurice, by Mario deSantis, December 8, 2000 | |
Chretien cleared of wrongdoing, Canoe, Canada Internet Network, November 21, 2000 | |
Liberal MPs 'vetted' grant applications, documents reveal, Robert Fife and Andrew McIntosh, November 21, 2000, National Post | |
Organization of the RCMP |