{"id":17207,"date":"2016-05-19T10:18:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T14:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=17207"},"modified":"2016-05-19T00:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T04:48:39","slug":"poeti-demotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/poeti-demotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Poeti’s asks Daoust about Transport Ministry Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Transport Minister Robert Poeti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally a credible explanation about Poeti’s demotion.<\/p>\n

Everyone in LaSalle and Verdun have been wondering why Couillard replaced Robert Poeti with Jacques Daoust in the last cabinet shuffle.<\/p>\n

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Jacques Daoust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Making room for younger, more diverse people” as a reason defies all logic.<\/p>\n

At first, we thought his was his hard stance on Uber, but the government has since taken essentially the same position.<\/p>\n

The Journal de Montreal<\/a> had a few other ideas about what went wrong, but they seemed like small\u00a0issues\u00a0for someone who works as hard as Poeti\u00a0does. The man seemingly doesn’t sleep. Even as a cabinet minister, he frequently attended important local events. Residents of his constituency see him everywhere, and he frequently takes up their causes.<\/p>\n

Now we discover from L’Actualit\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0that Poeti was investigating the department of Transport and attempting to improve its governance.<\/p>\n

The problems, according to journalist Louis Lacroix, included the impossible situation in which junior employees are supposed to fairly evaluate their bosses without being influenced to modify their reports.<\/p>\n

Mais l\u2019ancien secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du gouvernement, Andr\u00e9 Dicaire, qui si\u00e8ge au comit\u00e9 d\u2019audit du minist\u00e8re des Transports, avait eu l\u2019id\u00e9e de changer la structure en nommant un PCP par r\u00e9gion relevant directement du directeur territorial.<\/p>\n

\u00abDonc, l\u2019employ\u00e9 se trouve \u00e0 \u00e9valuer son patron sur les conformit\u00e9s de projets ou de contrats qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9s. J\u2019y voyais un probl\u00e8me\u00bb, dit M. Po\u00ebti.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lacroix’s story also outlines how former employees obtained their salaries via no-bid contracts.<\/p>\n

Par exemple, un ex-employ\u00e9 \u00e0 la retraite et r\u00e9sidant d\u00e9sormais \u00e0 Saguenay a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9embauch\u00e9 en 2014 pour travailler au projet de r\u00e9fection de l\u2019\u00e9changeur Turcot\u2026 \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al. Le contrat consistait \u00e0 offrir des \u00abservices de conseiller expert en gestion de projet pour un mode de r\u00e9alisation non traditionnel\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Mais plut\u00f4t que de lui accorder un salaire de 50 000 dollars, le minist\u00e8re lui a donn\u00e9 deux contrats de gr\u00e9 \u00e0 gr\u00e9 de 24 500 dollars, tout juste sous le seuil des appels d\u2019offres, au nom de son entreprise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lacroix’s information about UPAC refusing to investigate Transport Ministry employees is well worth reading.<\/p>\n

La Presse<\/a>‘s story\u00a0included \u00a0Poeti’s letter to Jacques Daoust<\/a>\u00a0asking for explanations about\u00a0cost overruns, employee behaviour and no-bid contracts awarded by the Transport Ministry that still haven’t been answered.<\/p>\n

Despite stories by the Canadian Press as reported in the \u00a0CBC<\/a>,\u00a0CJAD<\/a>, Citynews<\/a> and\u00a0Le Journal<\/a>,\u00a0Poeti may not have been demoted for asking too many questions. That’s what\u00a0Jonathan Trudeau<\/a> thinks.\u00a0There may indeed be another reason that the ex-police officer and popular local politician\u00a0had to be removed from discussions taking place under cabinet secrecy.<\/p>\n

Still, it won’t hurt to examine the operations of the Transport Ministry while we keep wondering what’s really going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally a credible explanation about Poeti’s demotion. Everyone in LaSalle and Verdun have been wondering why Couillard replaced Robert Poeti with Jacques Daoust in the last cabinet shuffle. “Making room for younger, more diverse people” as a reason defies all logic. At first, we thought his was his hard stance on Uber, but the government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[241,257,865],"class_list":["post-17207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lasalleposts","category-politics-that-matter","tag-jacques-daoust","tag-robert-poeti","tag-upac","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17209,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207\/revisions\/17209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}