New corruption squad may not make difference, says former city number 2

The creation of another corruption squad in Montreal may not have the effect it is meant to have, says a former Montreal executive in parliament.

According to the Gazette, Jean Fortier described to the one of the daily’s reporters that corruption extended beyond the construction industry.

Fortier explained that corruption spread to the city’s permits, real-estate dealings, zoning changes and the contracts for new garbage and recycling bins during his tenure as the city’s number two.

The new corruption squad will have twenty members and was created by interim mayor Michael Applebaum on January 11th. Their main objective is to protect the administrative integrity of the city of the Montreal, especially when tendering contracts.

The focus on what has gripped the construction industry has detoured the looking into other municipal contracts that Fortier pointed were tainted during the years in which he was in politics.

He proposes that the new squad look into all areas of municipal contracts and not just the construction industry.

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