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Rockland Citizen Facebook page. The emails, all in French, show Lalonde providing advice on how to remove Gatien from his position then as the city director. The suggestions included having council members file formal complaints against him. At that time Lalonde was the subject of a defamation lawsuit by Gatien for state- ments printed in Les Mousquetaires jour- nal, which Lalonde co-produced with oth- ers for several years prior to the November 2010 municipal election. The journal ceased publication soon after the 2010 election. In 2011 Gatien resigned from his position as city director and chief executive officer. The entire council later had to negotiate an out-of-court settlement with Gatien which cost the city $372,834.40 in salary and ben- efits, a severance package, and legal costs for Gatien. Clarence-Rockland’s ex-CEO is now the economic development director for Russell Township. In a past interview with the Ottawa Citi- zen, Lalonde claimed the emails could not be used against him in any investigation because their contents were under the le- gal protection of client-solicitor confidenti- ality privilege. The OPP investigation report has now gone to the prosecutor’s office for review and to determine whether or not criminal charges will result against the four. The Vision called the mayor’s office for comment. As of press time there was no reply.
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The OPP are done with their investigation of Marcel Guibord and two members of council. Now the question is whether or not the Crown Prosecutor’s office will file any charges. The mayor and two councillors, Guy Félio and Diane Choinière, and the mayor’s for- mer business partner, Stéphane J. Lalonde, were the subjects of an investigation by the OPP anti-rackets unit about an alleged con- spiracy against Daniel Gatien, the former director for the City of Clarence-Rockland. The breach-of-trust investigation cen- tres around a series of emails exchanged between the four following the Novem- ber 2010 civic election. Guibord had filed a complaint with the OPP that the emails were stolen from his computer. But after police reviewed the contents of the emails their investigation focused instead on the newly-elected mayor and two councillors and Lalonde. The mayor has since told the Ottawa Citi- zen that the emails were fakes but has not explained why the complaint he filed re- ferred to them as stolen. As part of their investigation police in- terviewed Lalonde and tried to interview the mayor and two councillors about the emails. There is no confirmation at present whether police have talked to Mayor Gui-
bord. Félio reported in one media interview that he had declined to speak to police on the advice of his lawyer. Choinière has indi- cated she does not want to talk about the case.
The emails which are the subject of both the original complaint and now the breach- of-trust probe were posted online through Facebook by a person using the alias of Ser- gio Netaliano. The emails are still available online through the Citoyen de Clarence-
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Algonquin land claim progress report
Ontario on the results of the preliminary draft AIP review. Crane stated that the pro- vincial and federal governments and the Algonquin Nation have all agreed to further review based on the comments and sug- gestions made during the various public meetings and stakeholder interviews. The goal is to have a final draft AIP ready to present to Algonquin Nation voters for ratification at the end of this year. The draft AIP will be available for public review at least two months prior to the vote. Once all three sides have approved the draft AIP negotiations can begin on the fi- nal land claims agreement. This stage of the process may take between four and five years to conclude, including time spent in public consultations.
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L’ORIGNAL | Another step forward is taken on the Algonquin land claim treaty pro- cess for Eastern Ontario. Results of nine public information ses- sions plus more than 100 separate meet- ings with stakeholder groups took place over the past eight months since the pre- liminary draft agreement-in-principle (AIP) was posted for public review and discussion in December 2012. The United Counties of Prescott-Russell council (UCPR) reviewed a four-page sum- mary from Brian Crane, chief negotiator for
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ticulière au 12 juillet. Rappelons qu’à cette date, le maire avait rendu public 46 docu- ments dans lesquels «il y a suffisamment de preuves pour soulever de sérieuses préoc- cupations sur la façon dont les fonds pub- lics auraient été abusivement utilisés …» mentionnait M. Guibord dans le Message du Maire aux citoyens de Clarence-Rock- land. «Encore une fois, nous avons des prob- lèmes avec les documents confidentiels, encore une fois, une opinion juridique très confidentielle qui a été présentée en huis clos, avait malheureusement le nom d’un employé de la Ville qui s’est retrouvée dans les mains des médias», a déclaréM. Guibord. Le nom de l’employé en question serait la greffière Monique Ouellet. L’avis juridique réclame tous les courriels de la greffière du 1er juillet au 12 août. «J’espère que celui ou celle qui l’a fait, qui l’a mis (document) dans les mains des médias, aura le respect et le courage d’aller voir cette personne, cette employée, et lui faire ses excuses», a ajouté le maire Marcel Guibord. MULTI-FINIS Portes et armoires de cuisine et salle de bains. • Décapage • Teinture • Finition • Laque • Vernis • Peinture •
Selon ce qui a été discuté à la réunion plé- nière, les documents en question auraient été obtenus lors de la réunion du comité d’Administration du 26 août dernier. Le conseiller Raymond Serrurier a sou- ligné, pour sa part, que les documents n’étaient pas disponibles pour tous les membres. «[…] au meilleur de ma con- naissance, il y a seulement le comité d’administration qui avait accès à ses docu- ments là, M. le maire.» La conseillère Diane Choinière a répondu avoir remarqué un conseiller quitter avec une copie des documents. «Un membre du conseil est sorti avec les documents et la greffière était censée lui demander de reprendre les documents. […] définitive- ment, un membre du conseil est sorti avec les documents.» Le conseiller Bernard Payer s’est interposé par la suite. «De quel conseiller voulez-vous parler?», a demandé M. Payer. Le maire a répondu: «On en reparlera à huis clos». M. Payer a conclu en disant: «De toute façon, je n’ai pas peur.»
gager un commissaire à l’intégrité», a af- firmé Guy Félio. Il s’agirait, en fait, d’une réponse à la ré- cente fuite de documents confidentiels qui ont été remis dans les mains des médias. Le 28 août dernier notamment, Radio- Canada rapportait que, selon un avis ju- ridique, le maire de Clarence-Rockland, Marcel Guibord, réclamait la liste de tous les appels téléphoniques reçus et effectués par des employés de la municipalité, du 1er juillet au 12 août, avec une attention par-
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Le conseiller Guy Félio proposera l’embauched’unecommissaireà l’intégrité pour la Cité de Clarence-Rockland. «Le comité d’administration, comme vous le savez, a commencé à discuter d’un code d’éthique […] mais pendant qu’on attend d’avoir un code d’éthique, la Ville peut en-
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