The Smith-Brazeau connection -- Deeper than I ever imagined
From my post on David Smith, the Liberal MP for the riding of Pontiac, and his questionable aboriginal status:
One more thing. According to Chief Whiteduck, the family name of Brazeau is common enough in Maniwaki. I haven't figured out if Frank Brazeau, who seems to play a major part as the "inside man", came from this branch of the family. If he did, one wonders just how far back Smith and Brazeau go.
The answer: two generations.
From a source on the reserve who would prefer to remain unnamed:
Brazeau is from our reserve and is an aboriginal...Smith is from Maniwaki but is not an aboriginal. Funny coincidence, but Smith and Brazeau are related on their MOTHER's side both of whom are french quebecers. Smith's mother ... Suzanne Clement Smith and Brazeau's grandmother ... Thelorèse Clement Fournier are sisters. That means Brazeau's mother and Smith are direct cousins.
Wow! This means that Frank Brazeau, the bureaucrat suspended without pay over the bad contracts, and Liberal MP David Smith, former owner of the company Abotech that profited from those same contracts, are related!
A "funny coincidence"? Or evidence of a conspiracy between cousins who grew up close to each other, one a Liberal member of parliament, and the other a bureaucrat in the department in charge of allocating contracts to aboriginal firms, and also the former secretary of the Liberal Party riding association for that very same Liberal MP? Remember that Brazeau became the secretary for the Liberal association right after the 2004 election, the same election that saw David Smith first elected for that riding.
If this information is good, this is amazing!
I wonder if the RCMP is reading this.
Index of Abotech posts:
Another Liberal scandal brewing
Abotech Scandal Update
Abotech Scandal Update #2: MP David Smith's six-figure company is run out of his home
Hiding behind the Ethics Commissioner
Abotech Scandal Update #3: Now Abotech is an aerospace company?
Abotech Scandal Update #4: The nature of the work performed -- "Other"
Liberals: David Smith might have done something wrong. Really!
David Smith, Jaguar Solutions, ASM Informatique, and Government Contracts
David Smith, Jaguar Solutions, ASM Informatique -- close, literally
The press confirms David Smith works out of his home
Could David Smith's kids be running Abotech?
David Smith, Abotech, and Nursing
The Abotech Affair: The Link between Indian Affairs and Public Works
Abotech: One competitive contract awarded
Major developments in the Abotech affair (and a major correction)
David Smith is as aboriginal as my Polish grandmother
David Smith's extended Liberal Party bio
On the question of who manages Abotech and subcontractors
The Smith-Brazeau connection -- Deeper than I ever imagined
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Comments
One certainly hopes the RCMP is reading this. One's faith in their taking any action as a result is sadly diminished.
Mark
Ottawa
Posted by: Mark Collins at October 25, 2005 07:48 PM
Yeah, its becoming more & more evident that the nation's police force is far from an impartial body, rather a bought & paid for tool of the Liebranos.
I speak of the coverup of the funds for the Musical Ride (of Adscam fame), phony coverup of the NB or NS school run by the brother of a liberal cabinet minister, and their general disinterest in investigation of Liberals.
Posted by: Alienated at October 25, 2005 08:43 PM
The corruption of the RCMP is THE reason why Aberta needs its own provincial police force.
Posted by: Leonidas at October 25, 2005 08:49 PM
All I can say Angry is keep it going. You're on fire now... hopefully it will be somebody else who gets burned.
Posted by: Surecure at October 25, 2005 10:56 PM
I was once told by a relatively senior RCMP (a personal friend) that "the fraud squad couldn't catch so much as a cold" - before we go besmirching them all, let's maybe target the correct piece of the force. I refuse to believe that every single RCMP is on the take for the gov't. That being said, whoever is in charge of "investigating" fraud, particularly the governmental kind, needs, as my Dad says, "a swift kick in the ass with a frozen boot!"
Posted by: Candace at October 26, 2005 03:55 AM
 
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