As proponents correctly pointed out, Quebec is in somewhat dire financial straits. Its universities need the money. Financial assistance already is available for low-income students. To many in Quebec, this is irrelevant. Ontario, New Brunswick and British Columbia can charge whatever they like. In recent weeks, this model has been defended in an appalling and dangerous fashion.
An investigation by The Canadian Press of stimulus funding in three municipalities a moment ago raided by police revealed three branch out cases where companies tied to against the law charges received contracts under the multibillion-dollar federal-provincial infrastructure plan. These include companies owned by construction entrepeneurs Tony Accurso and Lino Zambito, both of whom are facing a long series of charges. Word of their success all the rage obtaining stimulus funding comes after a Canadian Press report last week so as to many individuals facing charges for criminal activity at the municipal level allow ties to federal parties through biased donations. It has noted that civic tendering rules are generally a local responsibility. The Canadian Press examined a sample of infrastructure projects that arrive federal stimulus money in Boisbriand, Laval and Terrebonne, three rapidly growing bedroom communities north of Montreal. Fifteen ancestor have since been arrested in association with alleged illegal payments during the construction of water-treatment plants shared as a result of Terrebonne and its neighbour, Mascouche. A separate police roundup in also adage seven people charged for allegedly attractive part in a kickback system all the rage Boisbriand. There is, however, considerable be related between the alleged members of the collusion ring and those who carried out infrastructure work under one of several federal-provincial stimulus funds in Quebec, known under its French acronym, PRECO. The Conservative government took pains en route for point that out two years back, when first asked about reports of corruption scandals in Quebec involving biased parties, construction companies and the Mafia.
