Doing Business in Canada: Setting pyramidal paper businesses with the assistance of governments?

Doing Business in Canada:
Setting pyramidal paper businesses with the assistance of governments?

Nipawin - December 17, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis

integral
values
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⁾.

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.

Groupe
Force
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⁾.

LaPrade
Fund
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.

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.

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

1.
-
Thoughts on our Governments and Justice System in Canada, by Mario deSantis, February 15, 2000

2.
-
2000 Report of the Auditor General of Canada, Chapter 2 - Human Resources Development Canada - Service Quality at the Local Level,

3.
-
2000 Report of the Auditor General of Canada, Chapter 12 - Values and Ethics in the Federal Public Sector

4.
-
On the take, (The Mulroney's years) by Stevie Cameron, February 1995, Macfarlane Walter & Ross; ISBN:0921912730

5.
-
-
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.

6.
-
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

7.
RCMP asked to launch new probe, Lawrence Martin, December 13, 2000, Southam News

Doing Business in Canada: Setting pyramidal paper businesses with the assistance of governments?

Nipawin - December 17, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis

integral values	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⁾.

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.

Groupe Force	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⁾.

LaPrade Fund	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.

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.

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

1. -	Thoughts on our Governments and Justice System in Canada, by Mario deSantis, February 15, 2000

2. -	2000 Report of the Auditor General of Canada, Chapter 2 - Human Resources Development Canada - Service Quality at the Local Level,

3. -	2000 Report of the Auditor General of Canada, Chapter 12 - Values and Ethics in the Federal Public Sector

4. -	On the take, (The Mulroney's years) by Stevie Cameron, February 1995, Macfarlane Walter & Ross; ISBN:0921912730

5. - -	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.

6. -	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

7.	RCMP asked to launch new probe, Lawrence Martin, December 13, 2000, Southam News