Justin Ling: Does Jean Charest really want his record scrutinized?

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I always imagined it would happen in a dank and smokey bar. A woman in trenchcoat buttoned up to her ears would sit down, slide a manilla envelope to me across the rye-soaked table, and disappear as soon as she arrived. Pulling out the page inside, I’d take a deep breath and say:I did not expect that my reintroduction to the former premier of Quebec would be under the guise of Conservative party succession planning. But here we are.

Why Charest would invite the scrutiny of his record now, some eight years after he lost his own seat in a bruising provincial election, escapes me. After the global recession eased up and growth returned to Quebec, Charest embarked on getting spending under control once again, mostly by taking aim at the province’s generous social services, particularly its heavily subsidized post-secondary education.

I got to experience Charest’s virtual protest-ban first-hand, as a cub reporter covering the demonstrations. Hundreds of thousands of protesters had filled the streets during the day, but when protesters held a smaller rally one warm night in May, police declared it illegal and began to round everyone up — myself included. My press credentials apparently counting for nothing, I was handcuffed and told I’d be heading up the river. An editor’s irate call to police HQ eventually led to my release.

Municipal parties in and around Montreal had been running an intricate cash-for-contracts scheme, with buy-in from the Mafia, to rig municipal infrastructure work in order to line their party coffers. Under pressure, Charest set up the Charbonneau Commission to study the rank corruption. Mayors fell, industry tycoons were arrested, and the whole dirty affair was dragged into the light.

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Let’s scrutinize Stephen Harper’s while we’re at it. Then Charest’s will look pretty good. Ling is a hack. cdnpoli

Full of himself? Has he forgotten about the time he was leader in Q....closet is quite full...

Huawei. That is all.

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He is a relic of the past so no significance when it comes to leadership or any party.

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