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Title: MPs to probe Parliament Hill construction contract
Category: Political
Posted By: hurley_108
Date: 2010-10-19 09:51:50
Canadian

[hurley_108]

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The witness list will also include businessman Michael Fortier, who was the minister of Public Works when the contract was awarded, and Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis, who was at Public Works when LM Sauv� defaulted on the contract and was thrown out of the project by the government.

What the article fails to remind people is that Fortier was the UNELECTED Minister of Public Works. He was appointed to the Senate after '06 so he could fill that role, and lost his campaign to win an actual House seat in '08.

[andyt]

Yeah, but the Liberals did it too and are much worse. (Thought I'd beat the Reformacons to the punch.)

[DrCaleb]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

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The witness list will also include businessman Michael Fortier, who was the minister of Public Works when the contract was awarded, and Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis, who was at Public Works when LM Sauv� defaulted on the contract and was thrown out of the project by the government.

What the article fails to remind people is that Fortier was the UNELECTED Minister of Public Works. He was appointed to the Senate after '06 so he could fill that role, and lost his campaign to win an actual House seat in '08.

It also fails to mention it was Harper's first act as a newly minted PM, elected on an 'open and honest' platform.

Public works has always been the political party in power's secret feeding trough.

[hurley_108]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

hurley_108 hurley_108:

$1:

The witness list will also include businessman Michael Fortier, who was the minister of Public Works when the contract was awarded, and Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis, who was at Public Works when LM Sauv� defaulted on the contract and was thrown out of the project by the government.

What the article fails to remind people is that Fortier was the UNELECTED Minister of Public Works. He was appointed to the Senate after '06 so he could fill that role, and lost his campaign to win an actual House seat in '08.

It also fails to mention it was Harper's first act as a newly minted PM, elected on an 'open and honest' platform.

Public works has always been the political party in power's secret feeding trough.

Well we don't know what Harper did first, pick Fortier or flip Emerson, but I know what you mean.

I also can't help but notice, after MacLeans made the point, that these two embattled PW ministers, Fortier and Paradis, are both from Quebec.....

[DrCaleb]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

hurley_108 hurley_108:

What the article fails to remind people is that Fortier was the UNELECTED Minister of Public Works. He was appointed to the Senate after '06 so he could fill that role, and lost his campaign to win an actual House seat in '08.

It also fails to mention it was Harper's first act as a newly minted PM, elected on an 'open and honest' platform.

Public works has always been the political party in power's secret feeding trough.

Well we don't know what Harper did first, pick Fortier or flip Emerson, but I know what you mean.

I also can't help but notice, after MacLeans made the point, that these two embattled PW ministers, Fortier and Paradis, are both from Quebec.....

The way I remember it, Fortier was first. And this story seems to confirm it.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada ... id=2493129