Michel Arsenault, ex-FTQ president, testifies at corruption inquiry

Written By Unknown on Senin, 27 Januari 2014 | 22.41

The Quebec corruption inquiry resumes this morning with much-anticipated testimony from Michel Arsenault, the former president of the province's largest labour group, the Quebec's Federation of Labour (FTQ).

This will be Arsenault's first appearance before the Charbonneau commission, although the inquiry has heard him in dozens of wiretap recordings. Arsenault was elected to the federation's top job in 2007 but announced in November that he would not seek re-election.

Last week, the inquiry heard a recorded conversation between senior union officials.

In wiretap evidence from 2009, Arsenault can be heard promising another union official that he had spoken to Premier Pauline Marois, who was the leader of the official Opposition of the time, about preventing the corruption inquiry from happening. 

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Ex-FTQ president Michel Arsenault is expected to face questions before the corruption inquiry about his relationship with Premier Pauline Marois and her husband. (CBC News)

In the recordings, Arsenault also mentions a "deal" he has with Marois's husband, Claude Blanchet.

Blanchet directed the FTQ's Solidarity Fund​ between 1983 and 1997.

Arsenault will also answer to whether he tried to cover up a system of collusion at the union, and face questions about his relationship with construction boss Tony Accurso

The former FTQ president fought hard to block the inquiry from using the wiretap evidence, which was recorded by police.

The union effectively lost that battle in October, when a Superior Court justice refused an appeal for more time to make a case against the release of the wiretap evidence.


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