Jean Charest will be the next Conservative Prime Minister of Canada?

Jean Charest will be the next Conservative prime minister of Canada?

Pedigree

CBC has learned that investigators from the Unité permanente anticorruption (Anti-corruption unit)  (UPAC) trying to determine whether the former Premier Jean Charest took part in an operation Sectoral financing before being brought to power in 2003.

His efforts have been made ​​to the President of SNC-Lavalin's Board of Directors at the time, Guy Saint-Pierre, in order to collect a sum of 50,000 $ employees of the firm.

Mr. St. Peter is part of the Liberal family. He was a minister in the government of Robert Bourassa.

The investigation of the UPAC which speaks of Jean Charest is called blacken. In a search of documents related to this investigation, we find the names of several Liberal politicians, businessmen associated with the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) and party employees.

In this survey, for the first time, Jean Charest is associated directly to a financing transaction with an SNC-Lavalin's leader.

A former chief of staff to Jean Charest when he was in opposition, said he had a discussion about it with her ​​boss and Marc Bibeau, former Finance PLQ.

Ronald Poupart says Marc Bibeau told him he would meet with Guy Saint-Pierre Jean Charest to convince him to get $ 50,000 of SNC-Lavalin employees. This happened in 2002 in Jean Charest's office at Place Ville-Marie in downtown Montreal.

Mr. Bibeau was seeking $ 3,000 checks of SNC-Lavalin employees to comply with the law, insists Mr. Poupart.

But in searches of documents to the Liberal Party released there 10 days, former leaders of SNC -Lavalin stated that between 1996 and 2008, "there was a refund system for political donations from employees." This use of aliases is illegal.

It is however not known whether MM. Charest and Bibeau got the money they requested. And if so, if they were aware of the reimbursement system.

Jean Charest reacted to the news in a statement Friday evening. "I have participated in any form of illegal political fundraising event, he wrote. The report of Mr. Gravel rebuilt tendentiously events that took place there 12 years from that. " Marc Bibeau, he did not comment on our information.

SNC-Lavalin denies having participated in this operation, saying that it is unthinkable.

In documents filed with the Charbonneau Commission, it was established that SNC-Lavalin employees gave $ 43,000 to the Quebec Liberal Party in 2002 and $ 50,000 in 2003.

The survey adds to blacken other two surveys to the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) or Yoke and Ivy.

According to our sources, investigators from the 'UPAC noted that since the return to power of the Liberals, all the steps and actions taken in the framework of these surveys have become extremely sensitive.

Tony Accurso friend of Jean Charest and the Liberal Party of Quebec

Tony Accurso paid not less half a million dollars to the Liberal Party of Jean Charest, at the request of the great financier Marc Bibeau, revealed the Charbonneau commission. The entrepreneur said that to approach the policy, what is needed is "a check".

The contractor, who also gave to a lesser extent the other parties, argued to have done only out of fear . to be excluded from public contracts

According to figures presented to the commission, the employees of its companies and their relatives gave $ 748,000 between 1998 and 2011, the Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) getting the lion's share: 556,000 . $

This is something my father taught me: do not ask a politician to help you, ask him not to harm you, Tony Accurso signed

Tony Accurso also claims to have never suffered the wrath of the parties, unless it is proved that it is at the request of the Parti Québécois (PQ) that Hydro-Québec has sidelined contracts in 2012, as he said Thursday. He also deduced that if he had given more, it would not hurt him.

So he denies, as stated John Lebouthillier in a taped conversation of March 20, 2009 with the President of the Quebec Federation of Labor ( FTQ) Michel Arsenault, its companies have been eliminated from a list of suppliers by the previous PQ government (1994-2003) at the instigation of Minister Serge Ménard, or he lobbied for Liberal handed in a list which, he believes, does not exist.

Tony Accurso Jean Charest and

Premier of Quebec, Philippe Couillard refused to interpret the photo unveiled at the Charbonneau Commission on Thursday that the former head of seen Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ), Mr. Jean Charest lovingly hugging entrepreneur Tony Accurso, accused of being part of the Mafia

Judge France Charbonneau

Philippe Couillard and Tony Accurso

"I would not interpret, pleaded Philippe Couillard to entry caucus PLQ this morning. It's always difficult to tell a picture it does not say. Beware of easy associations debate.

""I will not go into an iconographic interpretation  "-. Philippe

Couillard"It was the years of opposition, lead the Premier. It seems to be a fundraising event that was organized. We take this kind of pictures there often.

"Under questioning, the Prime Minister said he did not know Mr. Tony Accurso.

A difficult caution

Mr. Philippe Couillard agrees that it is more cautious now and adopt a more reserved attitude to avoid ending up in such a situation. "I meet the people I meet our activists, but I am relatively cautious."

He adds in the same breath that it is difficult to be cautious when you're a public figure. "How to tell someone you do you do not know, and who comes to see you to ask you to get your picture taken with you," no, it does not try to make me take pictures ... "."

Mr. Philippe Couillard illustrates his point by citing an incident last night event. He believes he was photographed with forty people assuming that "all were there for the right reasons."

Philippe Couillard welcomes doing politics at a time when party financing has changed. "We do not need to organize fundraising events. It's over, says Mr. Philippe Couillard.

People were in good faith, I'm sure, but it is no longer necessary and fortunately because now we have a much better atmosphere than existed before.

"Afriend of weight that Tony Accurso

In the photo that made ​​headlines, it is written:" Dear Tony. Thank you for support. Friendships. Jean Charest 2001 ". The contractor recognized that these were thanks in connection with a cocktail fundraiser for the Liberal Party.

According to a source close to the former Prime Minister, the photo was taken in 2001 at a fundraising event in the riding of Chomedey, for Thomas Mulcair. It was a common practice of the organizers to take pictures with people on site and to send them to Mr. Charest for sign adds the same source, which states that at that time, Mr. Accurso was not charged with anything.

Mr. Jean Charest have met Mr. Tony Accurso three or four times, always in public events, she says again.

Jean Charest Prime Minister of Canada

Jean Charest could make a return to politics at the federal Conservative Party.

It's least that has advanced the political columnist Jean Lapierre Friday morning at 98.5 FM. "Between you and me and then there was the world around Jean Charest that begins to activate," he has told the presenter Paul Arcand, amazed.

Jean Charest would not run in the next election, but the Conservative Party would have him as a leader if Stephen Harper fought or minority in the next election.

"In the Conservative Party, many see him there and he does not say no, advanced Jean Lapierre. The rumor is serious, but it must wait to see what will be in the report of the Charbonneau commission. You understand, it can be a hindrance.

"Jean Charest's political comeback

Premier of Quebec from 2003 to 2012, Jean Charest was a stormy final term, especially because of the student strike and Charbonneau commission.

Before from provincial politics, Jean Charest was MP under the banner of the Conservative Party and Progressive Conservative in the riding of Sherbrooke, his hometown.

At the next federal election, the Conservative Party will be minority and Mr. Stephen Harper resign . Therefore, Jean Charest will leave favorite to fill the position of leader of the Conservatives in Canada.

Canada's Jean Charest English Iron Man, he broke Quebec.

She will again Corruption parliamentary menu?

Philippe Couillard is currently Premier of Quebec

According to a report AlainGravel

BernardA text Leduc

http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/national/archives/2015/06/20150612-142827.html

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/politique/2014/09/05/001-philippe-couillard-plq-jean-charest-tony-accurso.shtml

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2014/09/05/001-accurso-ceic-financement-politique.shtml

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2014/11/21/005-upac-jean-charest-financement-sectoriel-parti-liberal-quebec.shtml