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Quebec Premier Jean Charest is likely to put forward a plan Tuesday, in response to all the requests for a public investigation into charges of corruption in the province’s construction industry. Premier Charest held an unusual meeting on Monday regarding the same issue.
Earlier on Monday, Quebec’s Public Security Minister Robert Dutil said: “We pretty well know that the population wants to have more light on those problems, we understand that. But we also want to be sure that people who [do] something illegal will be punished for that.”
Regardless of the calls from the opposition and unions, Charest stays firm that public inquiry is not the solution, upholding that an investigation could impede police inquest into corruption and conspiracy.
Étienne Boulrice, a former advisor to a Liberal MNA said: “Misdeeds in the construction sector inflate the cost of projects and create economic uncertainty among foreign investors, who fear costs will run out of control. Our economy suffers, our democracy suffers, the generations who built and those who want to build Quebec suffer.”
Since 2009, Charest has been avoiding corruption inquiry, much demanded by a cross-section of Quebec society that came to include trade unions, engineers, mayors and the media. Now when the demands are rising from within his party, it seems like Charest has finally changed his mind.
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