Laval, Que., Stops Granting New Public Works Contracts

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The City of Laval has temporary postponed the bidding of new public works contracts related to sidewalks, sewers or aqueducts. The Vice-Chair of Laval’s Executive Committee, Basile Angelopoulos, explained that this decision is an outcome of presentation of the new Quebec government’s Bill 1.

This new legislature offered last week is objected to bring down the complicity and fraud in the construction industry. Laval is still going to be granting all the contracts related to health, public security and services to the public, but from now onwards city will only grant new contracts to the companies which are screened from the grant programming of the provincial and federal governments. It was announced on Radio-Canada last week that Laval will indeed distribute a total of $28 million in contracts to third party companies which will be screened by Quebec’s anti-corruption squad or in the ongoing investigation of the Charbonneau Commission.

Laval has recently been the focus of several raids by the province’s anti-corruption squad. Officers with the squad raided a branch of the Desjardins credit union in Laval and another financial institution on Oct. 24. Previously on Oct. 4, almost 70 officers raided city hall, Vaillancourt’s house and the city’s engineering and human resources departments’ offices.

So far Vaillancourt has disapproved any allegations of corruption made against him, including the claims of him illegally financing the provincial Liberal Party in 2002. Vaillancourt is currently on medical leave since Oct. 24.

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