THE COP PREMIER AND THE MOB….IT’S ONLY BUSINESS

The CBC recently broke the story that Nalcor had awarded a multimillion dollar Muskrat Falls construction contract to a company from Quebec called Opron - controlled by a well known Montreal construction figure – Mr Joe Borsellino.  

Opron Construction showed up on Nalcor's approved bidders list in February 2013; the CBC story reported “the same month Giuseppe Borsellino testified at Quebec's Charbonneau commission that he and his cousin were 51 per cent owners of the firm.”

Let’s go to his appearance before the Charbonneau Commission into criminal activity in Quebec’s construction industry:

“For two days, the construction boss caught on video delivering cash to the headquarters of the Rizzuto crime family has lurked in the back row of the Charbonneau inquiry, watching another witness, Joe Borsellino, confess to bribing public officials while playing down links to the mob.

Mr. Borsellino has proven a difficult witness..... In one instance that angered commission counsel, he could not remember depositing $1.8-million into a bank account until deposit slips were produced.” - Globe and Mail February 6, 2013

NALCOR MIMICS KAOS, ED MARTIN THE NEW MAXWELL SMART

Evidence that the hammer should be brought down on Nalcor continues to pile up. 

Ed Martin’s screening tool for contractors exhibits all the sophistication of Maxwell Smart; the bumbling Agent 86 in “Get Smart”. The 1960s comedy series is more likely to offer insight into Nalcor's behaviour and Ed Martin's utterances than any other interpretation of a rational and competent outfit managing the province's energy file.

As if the allegations in which SNC Lavalin is embroiled were not serious enough, the Nalcor CEO gives us Joe Borsellino, the master of memory tricks, who testified at the Charbonneau Commission Hearings into corruption into Quebec’s construction industry.

Borsellino’s faulty recall earned him disbelief from the presiding Madam Justice Charbonneau though, according to a CBC story, he still “acknowledged contact with organized crime.”