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   From: ConzRconz@YOW.ca   
      
   His lack of respect for ethics is an obvious match for the likes of the   
   PQ.  But then it's also a match for the likes of the Harper government.   
   This guy should be easy to knock off in his riding - just choose someone   
   from another party that DOES have respect for ethics.   
   Marois has some major introspection to do  . . .   
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   The Canadian Press - Published Monday, Mar. 10 2014   
      
      
   Pierre Karl Peladeau won’t sell Quebecor shares Add to ...   
      
   SAINT-BRUNO-DE-MONTARVILLE —   
      
   Media baron Pierre Karl Peladeau says he will not sell his Quebecor   
   shares even if he is told to do so by the province’s ethics commissioner.   
      
   The Parti Québécois candidate said he will consult the commissioner if   
   he is elected April 7 so they can discuss the risks of conflict of   
   interest between his company’s operations and those of the government.   
      
   In announcing his candidacy Sunday, Peladeau said he has resigned as   
   vice-chairman of Quebecor and will place his investments in a blind trust.   
      
   Premier Pauline Marois said at a news conference with Peladeau today   
   that he will have to abide by the ethics commissioner’s demands.  <<====   
      
   But Peladeau is insisting he won’t sell his Quebecor shares even if   
   Jacques Saint-Laurent tells him to.   <<====   
      
   Quebecor’s controlling shareholder says he wants to ensure that the   
   company’s head office remains in Quebec.   
      
   “I have no intention of selling my shares,’ he told the news conference.   
      
   “The proxy who will receive the mandate to manage the trust will have   
   clear and precise guidelines – and selling Quebecor is out of the   
   question.”   
      
   Peladeau has rejected suggestions his entry into politics could   
   represent a conflict of interest, given his powerful presence in the   
   province’s media landscape.   
      
   Quebecor, founded by Peladeau’s father, has a number of holdings in   
   Quebec, including tabloid newspaper Le Journal de Montreal, the   
   French-language TVA television network and the Videotron cable company.   
      
   It also owns the Sun tabloids and the Sun News Network in English Canada.   
      
   Peladeau says Sun News and his other media holdings can “say whatever   
   they want” about the PQ and the push for an independent Quebec.   
      
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     It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the   
   acts of government to their own selfish purposes.   
      
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