Corruption crackdown, coming soon

Posted By: Angelica Montgomery · 10/26/2012 12:31:00 PM

The Parti Quebecois' first move in the up-coming session of the National Assembly will be to introduce a new anti-corruption law.

PQ MNAs are preparing for next week's return to the assembly with a caucus in Drummondville today.

"Our first priority, our first law, will be a clean-up of construction, political parties, and the municipal world," says Jean-François Lisée while in the hallway outside his meeting.

"It's part of our genetic make-up and it's one of the reasons Quebecers elected us."

He says the focus on corruption will not undermine the Parti Quebecois's other priorites, like language and identity. "We can walk, chew gum and text at the same time."

Minister Agnes Maltais says new details on their corruption crack-down will come down very soon.

"You'll see it next week. We'll table a law. A new law," she says.

"We have to change things and we are changing things. You'll see how next week."

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  1. Jonathan posted on 10/26/2012 01:19 PM
    Let me shed light on this subject. So the PQ government will be implementing a new anti-corruption law. That was fast. I guess the testimony of Lino Zambito made them realize things they didn't know [sarcasm]. This law will have so many loop holes that one could probably drive a truck through it. I've always been a proponent of having tougher sentences as it concerns white collar crime as I consider what has occurred in the realm of the Charbonneau Commission to be such. You know if the penalty for white collar crime would be a minimum 5 years person term without any chance of parole and to have their assets seizure the likes of these potentially crimes would probably be curtailed.
  2. Joe posted on 10/29/2012 07:22 AM
    This government will do anything to stay in power with the minimal minority status they have. Let the commision run its useless course, in the sense that a good percentage of the politicans new what was going on, so this exersize in futility will change how the criminals do things but it still will happen in another way or form, but to put out a law before the commision is finished just opens many other doors in time for the criminals to figure out how to get around it. As usual with this new minority government which has no clue what its doing because its hands are tied with its main goal (SEPARATION) they float the trial ballon then quickly change it after it blows up.
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