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...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...
...Offer. The Favreau incident has been festering since last summer when Montreal Lawyer Pierre Lamontagne, 30, went to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with a story that four highly placed Liberals-Raymond Denis, 32, then executive assistant to the Immigration Minister; Guy Rouleau, 42, Pearson's own parliamentary secretary; Andre Letendre, 34, Favreau's executive assistant; and Guy Lord, 26, a former special assistant to Favreau-were pressuring him to take it easy in an extradition case. Lamontagne was working for the U.S. Justice Department, which sought the extradition of one Lucien Rivard, a Montreal racketeer wanted...
...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...
...Mounties, of course, notified Justice Minister Favreau, and Favreau told Pearson, but as Pearson later admitted, he had "completely forgotten" about the warnings of trouble in his official family until two days before the Opposition Conservatives broke the story last November. When the storm hit Parliament, Pearson had no choice but to collect resignations and to appoint a commission of public inquiry. For the past six weeks, Canadians have been treated to the spectacle of the accused aides protesting their innocence and minor-league hoodlum types testifying about their "connections" in the Liberal government...