{"id":2010,"date":"2013-06-05T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/05\/duplessis-asks-for-trusteeship\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:49","slug":"duplessis-asks-for-trusteeship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/05\/duplessis-asks-for-trusteeship\/","title":{"rendered":"Duplessis asks for trusteeship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gob\u00e9 demands mayor\u2019s resignation<\/b><\/i>
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\nBy Robert Frank<\/b>
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

It took scathing allegations that Mayor Alexandre Duplessis committed election finance fraud to spur Quebec Municipal Affairs Minister Sylvain Gaudreault to action on May 31.<\/p>\n

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\nMore than three weeks after police arrested and charged former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt and 36 associates with gangsterism, the Parti qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/i> cabinet minister agreed to place the city under trusteeship after receiving a request from the mayor to do so.<\/div>\n
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\nDuplessis said Friday that he had talked to Gaudreault and that they agreed that trusteeship would be in the city\u2019s best interest, even as Duplessis denied the allegations against him. He added that he wanted to stay on as mayor while the city remains under provincial control, until the upcoming municipal election, Nov. 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a good decision,\u201d Gaudreault said in a statement. \u201cDuring the past year a number of extraordinary developments have seriously undermined public confidence in the city\u2019s civic administration.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nWhile details of the cabinet decree to make the trusteeship official had not been released when The Suburban<\/i> went to press, Gaudreault indicated that once the provincial government takes control it would \u201cexercise legal oversight in approving or rejecting the municipality\u2019s decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

When police made their arrests, May 9, Action Laval\u2019s mayoral candidate Jean-Claude Gob\u00e9 immediately called upon Gaudreault to impose trusteeship. \u201cWe sent [Gaudreault] an official letter,\u201d Gob\u00e9 told The Suburban<\/i> in a May 31 interview. \u201cWe never heard from him. No phone call. No letter. Nothing. We are an officially recognized political party in Laval, and we didn\u2019t even get an acknowledgement that he had recieived this letter about a very important matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

A call to Gaudreault\u2019s office by The Suburban<\/i> quickly changed that situation.<\/div>\n

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\n\u201cWe received an acknowledgement 35-minutes later,\u201d Gob\u00e9 said in a follow-up interview.<\/div>\n
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\nBelieving that leaving the current administration in place under trusteeship would be like having the fox guard the henhouse, Gob\u00e9 for his part, has escalated his demands, calling for Duplessis\u2019 immediate ouster.<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cThis is a whole new level of accusations,\u201d he said emphasizing the allegedly criminal origin of the money that Duplessis was accused of channeling through proxies to his former political party.<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cIf [the accusations] prove true, that means right now Laval is being held hostage by mobsters,\u201d Gob\u00e9 thundered. \u201cThat\u2019s very serious.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cThe Minister\u2014and probably the police as well\u2014must act swiftly,\u201d he demanded. \u201cThis farce can\u2019t go on, because the public can\u2019t take being the butt of the joke much longer. No one considers them credible any longer.\u201d<\/div>\n

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