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The Quebec Municipal Commission has announced to have decided that the City of Laval does not need to remain under provincial trusteeship anymore, and has chosen to relieve its involvement after Dec. 9. The commission admitted that the decision was prompted by a recommendation from the team of delegates who oversee the city. The Quebec government intervened in city administration last June after a witness at the Quebec corruption inquiry testified about then-interim mayor Alexandre Duplessis being involved in a widespread illegal political-financing scheme.
In an announcement made by the head of the commission, Denis Marsolais, he alleged that the newly elected Mayor Marc Demers’ readiness to cooperate with the trustees contributed to the decision. He stated that “the openness, collaboration and discipline shown by the newly elected administration favoured a recommendation to end the trusteeship.” A long string of corruption allegations started at Laval City Hall after the concluding resignation of former Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt, also known as the “King of Laval,” in November 2012. He had been leading the city since a total of six terms over 23 years. The former mayor was charged with exceptional number of 12 corruption-related offences including conspiracy, fraud, influence peddling, breach of trust and gangsterism.
Soon after Vaillancourt’s resignation, Duplessis took the office of mayor but his tenure was short-lived as the city was put under trusteeship in June, when he promised to stay on as mayor and work alongside trustees. However, a few weeks later Duplessis also resigned in light of a scandal against him allegedly involving prostitutes and extortion.
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