Word: dorion
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...face of racking scandal, few heads of government could have shown more outward aplomb than Prime Minister Lester Pearson. His Justice Minister Guy Favreau got a severe dressing down from Chief Justice Frédéric Dorion for having fumbled a notorious-bribery case involving four highly placed Liberals and a Montreal racketeer. For that, Favreau resigned (TIME, July 9), but Pearson loyally pronounced his continuing faith in his talented protégé. Last week Pearson named Favreau president of the Privy Council. The job might have been a sinecure, but Pearson tacked on a key role...
...deep embarrassment. For the resignation of Justice Minister Guy Favreau, 48, was triggered by the release of Canada's long-awaited Dorion report, prepared by Chief Justice Frederic Dorion, accusing Favreau of failure to take action on a bribery case involving the Pearson government. It was only the latest development in a series of scandals that has shaken the country's minority Liberal government, posing serious questions among Canadians as to the caliber of Mike Pearson's leadership...
Pearson seemed surprised by the fuss. Denis had already quietly resigned; Pearson now accepted Guy Rouleau's resignation and appointed Chief Justice Dorion as a one-man commission of public inquiry. To make matters worse, in the midst of the investigation Racketeer Rivard escaped from Montreal's Bordeaux Jail, has not been seen since...
...page report last week, Justice Dorion confirmed virtually all of Lawyer Lamontagne's charges. Favreau, said Dorion, was derelict in his duty for not looking deeper into "the possible perpetration of a criminal offense by one or several of the persons involved." If Favreau lacked facts, "he should have submitted the case to the legal advisers within his department with instructions to complete the search." Justice Dorion said nothing about Prime Minister Pearson's role...
Brave Attitude. To all this, Favreau lamely replied that it was a matter of opinion-a mere statement by Justice Dorion that, "had he been in my place, he would have exercised his discretion in a different fashion." Favreau said he was resigning "not out of a feeling that I have done anything wrong, but because my usefulness as a Minister of Justice has been impaired." Pearson backed him all the way. "My honorable friend," Pearson told the House of Commons, "remains a man and a minister of unimpeachable integrity and unsullied honor." Furthermore, Favreau would remain head...