The Liberal Party is asking the Auditor General to investigate a $200,000 grant the Commerce Department awarded the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) to hire a former employee of Pierre Fitzgibbon’s office.
• Also read: Subsidy for hiring a former CAQ candidate: According to the opposition parties, the government’s dubious decisions are piling up
• Also read: Cabinet de Fitzgibbon: Quebec paid $200,000 to hire a former Caquiste candidate
Our Bureau of Investigation announced earlier this week that the grant to fund the creation of the hospital position was awarded shortly after Hugues Beaulieu was hired as a strategic advisor and project manager for innovation in personalized health.
The former CAQ candidate worked in the Office of the Minister for Economic Affairs for four years.
“A reasonably informed person might believe that public money was deliberately used to subsidize a position assigned to someone close to the Secretary of Commerce, with the result that public confidence in the probity of the state would be undermined. It is in this context that the circumstances of this $200,000 grant need to be clarified,” Liberal MP Monsef Derraji said in a letter sent to Auditor General Guylaine Leclerc on Thursday.
Can you share information about this story with us?
Write to us or call us directly at 1-800-63SCOOP.