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...that time, the Trudeau government appeared to be involved in scandal. The first came in November, when Tory M.P. Elmer Mackay unsuccessfully petitioned Commons for a judicial inquiry into possible federal influence peddling in the granting of duty-free shop concessions at Montreal's airports. Mackay charged that Louis Giguere, a Liberal Senator and prominent party fund raiser, had made a $92,000 windfall profit from the timely purchase and sale of shares in Sky Shops Ltd., the concession in question. Mackay also charged that Health and Welfare Minister Marc Lalonde, who was Trudeau's principal secretary when...
Last week there were fresh accusations, this time by Quebec Superior Court Justice Kenneth Mackay (no kin to M.P. Mackay). In a letter to Justice Minister Ronald Basford, Justice Mackay charged that two present Cabinet ministers had used "unwarranted attempts to interfere with the judicial process." The two-Health and Welfare Minister Lalonde and Minister of Science and Public Works C.M. Drury-allegedly got in touch with Mackay or his colleagues in cases dating back to 1969, asking for delays in trials and making other unspecified requests...
...airline, which turned a profit of $6.1 million in 1973, lost $9.2 million last year. Pratte could explain the losses as at least partly due to the rise in fuel costs. But last April, Elmer MacKay, a Tory Member of Parliament, revealed that one of Pratte's appointees, Marketing Vice President Yves Menard, had authorized a curious payment of $100,000 as a "consultant's fee" to one of Montreal's top travel agents. The fact that Menard had resigned under pressure two months earlier did not prevent a scandal from growing, so the Canadian government asked...
Regular Payoffs. Though Pratte was known to have had a hand in almost all airline decisions, down to the choice of the plastic forks for in-flight meals, he insists that he knew nothing about Menard's actions-and the evidence supports him. Yet last month Tory M.P. MacKay documented charges that the airline had been regularly paying off Canadian travel agents' "fraudulent" commission claims. What he means is illegal kickbacks on tickets. Pratte's reluctant resignation soon followed...
...Bennett's company, State Street Management and Research Company; Cabot's 10-person staff of highly-touted investment and economic experts; State Street Trust Company, the University's new custodial banker; and the five firms named this week--F. Eberstadt and Company, the Fiduciary Trust Company of New York, MacKay-Shields Financial Corporation, Brown Brothers Harriman, and Scudder, Stevens and Clark...