![]() "You are demolishing Montreal's municipal institution, piece by piece," Mr. Opposition city councillor Richard Bergeron has taken his own extraordinary measures within his own municipal party, Projet Montréal, dropping the cellphones and e-mail accounts provided by the city to avoid espionage. From now on, the province and police will take charge of investigations or grant written permission for internal monitoring, he said. The mayor denied anyone else is being monitored. Much of Tuesday's council session was occupied by city councillors demanding to know who else is under surveillance by Mr. Bergeron described the spying as "a veritable fishing expedition." This all comes after the February revelation that city investigators were monitoring the e-mail account of auditor Jacques Bergeron, whose office is supposed to be independent of city administration. He also denied the BCIA investigation specifically targeted the former police chief. Reid was getting informal guidance from provincial police. Tremblay promised these unauthorized investigations would not happen again, but maintained Mr. The mayor has long been mocked over Quebec airwaves for his pleas of ignorance on allegations of corruption along with the current spy scandal. Tremblay's resignation and even the suggestion that the city needs to be put under a form of trusteeship by the province. The minister said he would not take control of the city - yet. Lessard was asked Tuesday if he would take the extraordinary measure of relieving the mayor and city hall of control of Montreal. Lessard and officials from the provincial police force both said they were left out of the loop. Provincial legislation says it is up to the provincial government to launch such an investigation, not the city and a team of private eyes. The paper said private investigators looked into relations between the chief and Luigi Coretti, the head of private security firm BCIA, which provided security to police stations, including headquarters, without a written contract. In the latest twist, the Montreal newspaper La Presse reported Tuesday that the mayor's administration hired private detectives to investigate his former police chief, Yvan Delorme, who also resigned under a cloud last year. "Elected officials have the right to confidentiality in their electronic communications." Lessard told reporters at the National Assembly in Quebec City. Reid himself was demoted this week over his controversial investigative techniques, which Quebec's Municipal Affairs Minister, Laurent Lessard, described on Tuesday as illegal. Dauphin and a demolition contract to the provincial police, Mr. Reid turned over "certain troubling facts" concerning Mr. The special sitting of city council became bogged down in procedural wrangling and dragged late into the evening without reaching a conclusion on Mr. Dauphin may have been obtained improperly by the city's comptroller-general, Pierre Reid. Tremblay tried to force his former top political ally, Claude Dauphin, out of his role as city hall chairman, despite the mayor's admission that evidence of alleged wrongdoing against Mr. ![]()
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