Quebec is about to announce measures to improve the energy efficiency of homes. Environment Minister Benoit Charrette confirmed at a news scrum on Thursday that in the next few days and weeks, we will be able to confirm major advances in this area.
In partnership with Quebec medical company Starpax BioPharma, the Jewish General Hospital is the first hospital in the world to use the ‘Polar Trak’ machine as an experimental form of
Quebec City is injecting up to $25 million into the Accelia Capital fund, which aims to finance 70% of companies owned by women or in which at least one woman
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Even more disturbing than former economy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon’s long-running violation of conflict-of-interest regulations is the Legault government’s evident attitude that it can pick and choose which laws to obey.
After several critical reports by Ethics Commissioner Ariane Mignolet, Fitzgibbon finally stepped down as minister Wednesday. The issue is that Fitzgibbon continues to hold stakes in two companies that do business with the government. No one is accusing Fitzgibbon of having profited from that situation, but Mignolet has ruled that those investments put him into a conflict of interest under the ethics law adopted in 2010, a law that Fitzgibbon should have been aware of before he entered politics. In her latest report, Mignolet said Fitzgibbon should either step down as minister and put the investments in a blind trust, or be suspended from the National Assembly until he disposes of the investments.
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There’s nothing new about politicians using the public’s own money to buy their votes. Sometimes it’s so comically obvious that it’s worth asking the question: Why control political fundraising so carefully if the party in power can spend unlimited amounts to woo voters?
Donald Trump understood the game when he fought to have his signature affixed to the hundreds of millions of cheques the U.S. government was doling out during the pandemic.
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