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The Abotech Affair: An unexpected change at PWGSC
Saturday, November 12, 2005 at 06:54 PM
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Scott Brison, Liberal Public Works Minister
Here is a listing of the staff in the office of Project Management Services at Public Works and Government Services Canada:
Brar, Kalvinder; Senior Consultant; (613) 992-6809Cloutier, Diane; Principal Consultant; (613) 996-7221
Courtney, Joe; Principal Consultant; (613) 995-4178
Fisher, Corrin; Consultant, CAC; (613) 944-4950
Inglis, Gordon; Senior Consultant; (613) 996-7120
Reid, Bill; Principal Consultant; (613) 996-0584
Spanner, David; Principal Consultant; (613) 943-8217
Yip, Jill; Consultant, CAC; (613) 996-0036
So they've gotten around to updating the database, removing Frank Brazeau, the bureaucrat implicated in the Abotech affair.
As you recall, my theory is that Abotech is a shell company created by faux-aboriginal David Smith, Liberal MP for the riding of Pontiac. Abotech, with the help of now-suspended bureaucrat (and cousin of David Smith) Frank Brazeau, lands contracts from the Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business program, run by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, under the leadership of the Honourable Andy Scott, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Metis and Non-Status Indians. The work is then handed off to one of David Smith's former firms to do the actual work, after David Smith takes his cut. Jaguar Solutions was one of those firms. It has done work for aboriginal contracts in the past.
I've been watching to see if Frank Brazeau's would eventually be purged from the Government Electronic Directory.
But why did the name of Assistant Director Marc Carriere disappear as well? A search of the directory confirms he has not been moved to another office. Is there a link? Will others disappear as well?
As a mere consultant, it seems strange that Frank Brazeau was the "inside man". Could he have had the power to direct PSAB contracts? Or would signing authority from a higher-up in the office be required?
As an assistant director, you have to wonder about Marc Carriere. Did he have a role in all this?
Perhaps Public Works Minister Scott Brison can answer that question in Question Period, since it goes to the management of his ministry, and thus is fair game in the House of Commons.
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