Warning: what I am about to suggest is quite tendentious and I have no evidence for what I am suggesting.
The Montreal city council just elected its second interim mayor this year to serve until the election in November. There have been corruption hearings for months and months carried out by an ad hoc commission. All the usual kinds of corruption involving city contracts with construction and road repair companies. For example, they have been paying top dollar for the bottom-of-the-barrel asphalt that the road repair companies were happy to use since they would get more frequent business. The Mayor was forced to resign during the winter and the first interim mayor was chosen.
Till now, this is indisputed fact. The first interim mayor announced that he was going to root out the corruption and even sue some of the companies for their ill-gotten gains. Suddenly a week ago, some corruption investigation unit in the Quebec Provincial Police (which hadn’t found any corruption in Montreal in however long it has been in existence, even though every inhabitant in the city was aware of it) suddenly showed up at the interim mayor’s residence home at 6 AM with an arrest warrant and hauled off to the clink charged with having accepted a bribe several years ago. I am not claiming he is innocent (the corruption was pervasive), but it took place years ago and this arrest came only after he seemed to threaten to actually do something about the corruption. Draw your own conclusion.
One thing seems certain. The new interim mayor will do nothing about corruption.:dubious: