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The (Charbonneau Commission ), officially the Commission of Inquiry on the Awarding and Management of Public Contracts in the Construction Industry,〔in French, :fr:Commission d'enquête sur l'octroi et la gestion des contrats publics dans l'industrie de la construction〕 is a public inquiry in Quebec, Canada into potential corruption in the management of public construction contracts. The commission was enacted on 19 October 2011 by the provincial Liberal government of Jean Charest, and is chaired by Justice France Charbonneau.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Commission d'enquête sur l'octroi et la gestion des contrats publics dans l'industrie de la construction: La Commission )〕 The mandate of the Committee is to: # Examine the existence of schemes and, where appropriate, to paint a portrait of activities involving collusion and corruption in the provision and management of public contracts in the construction industry (including private organizations, government enterprises and municipalities) and to include any links with the financing of political parties. # Paint a picture of possible organized crime infiltration in the construction industry. # Examine possible solutions and make recommendations establishing measures to identify, reduce and prevent collusion and corruption in awarding and managing public contracts in the construction industry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Commission d'enquête sur l'octroi et la gestion des contrats publics dans l'industrie de la construction: Mandat )〕 ==Testimony== * Riadh Ben Aissa, in 2009 the president of the construction division at SNC-Lavalin (SNC), was told that his firm’s proposal to build McGill University’s new super-hospital was faulty. However, someone on the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) had illegally given him a copy of the OHL consortium architectural drawings, which were favoured by the clinicians. Charles Chebl, who at the time was working under Ben Aissa and has since replaced him as head of construction for SNC, testified in May 2014 that Ben Aissa told him to incorporate the OHL design into a hasty revision of SNC’s plan. Chebl apparently demurred, and then was called to a meeting by then-CEO Pierre Duhaime where he claims to have been instructed to plagiarise the OHL design. Ben Aissa and Duhaime allegedly arranged bribes of $22.5-million to MUHC CEO Arthur Porter and his right-hand-man Yanai Elbaz in exchange for ensuring SNC won the $1.3-billion contract.〔("SNC-Lavalin VP says he was given ‘no choice’ but to cheat on hospital proposal" 22 May 2014 )〕 The contract was awarded to SNC in July 2010 and by the end of 2011, Porter had resigned all of his positions of public trust, and in February 2013 the police issued a warrant for his arrest. Porter has since absconded justice for "fraud, conspiracy to commit government fraud, abuse of trust, secret commissions and laundering the proceeds of a crime" related to the construction of the super-hospital, but he is fighting extradition from a Panama jail cell.〔(cjad.com: "Arthur Porter wants out of prison" 27 Mar 2014 )〕 * Witnesses have detailed a system of bid-rigging that saw a cartel of engineering and construction firms obtain public contracts from the city of Montreal in exchange for political donations. Collusion in the construction industry extended across the river to the city of Longeuil, testified Yves Cadotte, who was in 2014 senior vice-president and general manager of SNC’s transport, infrastructure and buildings division. The trick was for the politicians to solicit envelopes and briefcases of cash that were not directly related to the contracts for which tenders were requested, in order by that artifice to be able to skirt anti-bribery laws. Cadotte said the other engineering companies that were part of Longueuil’s system at the time were Genivar Inc., Dessau, Groupe SM and Cima+. In one instance the politicians requested $200,000, and Cadotte delivered $125,000 in cash to Liberal party fundraiser Bernard Trépanier, who stashed it in a briefcase. For the remaining $75,000, he said SNC agreed at the party’s request to pay an invoice from a Montreal communications firm for services that were largely never rendered. Cadotte was asked whether he ever thought about denouncing the collusion to the Competition Bureau of Canada, which has a policy of clemency for whistleblowers. Cadotte answered “No.”〔(nationalpost.ca: "SNC-Lavalin bid-rigging scam extended beyond Montreal, exec tells inquiry" 18 Mar 2014 )〕 * Julie Boulet, the Quebec Minister of Transport during the Liberal government of Jean Charest, contradicted herself when she denied her previous day's testimony that she was well aware of the requirement that cabinet ministers needed to raise funds annually in the amount $100,000. That is, in order to obtain and maintain a cabinet-level job in Quebec one must be able to provide or shepherd $100,000 in campaign contributions.〔(lapresse.ca: "Boulet maintient qu'elle ignorait l'objectif de 100 000 $" 15 May 2014 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charbonneau Commission」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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