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Evidence of meeting #36 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was know.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #36 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was know.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Former Minister of Public Works and Government Services, As an Individual
No.
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Former Minister of Public Works and Government Services, As an Individual
A cocktail fundraiser?
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Liberal
Denis Coderre Liberal Bourassa, QC
People showed up, you didn't speak to them, you collected the money, and then thank you, goodnight?
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Former Minister of Public Works and Government Services, As an Individual
No, no. There was a speech about what the government was doing and about what I was doing in Montreal. It ended like that.
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Liberal
Denis Coderre Liberal Bourassa, QC
All right.
Mr. Broccolini, thank you for being here. I know this must not necessarily be easy for you.
Do you know Minister Fortier, who is sitting beside you?
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Liberal
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Liberal
Denis Coderre Liberal Bourassa, QC
You attended the cocktail fundraiser at the Da Enrico restaurant in January 2009, didn't you?
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Vice-President, Montreal, Broccolini Construction Inc.
Mr. Ricardo Padulo, the owner.
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Liberal
Denis Coderre Liberal Bourassa, QC
So it was the owner who invited you to go. Why did he invite you? Because he is a Conservative and he is your friend; is that it?
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Vice-President, Montreal, Broccolini Construction Inc.
He's not even a friend; he's only an acquaintance. He invited me because he thought it was a good idea for me to be there with Minister Paradis.
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Liberal
Denis Coderre Liberal Bourassa, QC
In your mind, in paying that amount, you had the impression that you had the opportunity to send certain messages, I suppose. I'm not talking about contracts.
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Vice-President, Montreal, Broccolini Construction Inc.
I wanted to send him a message because I wasn't pleased with the process of the first RFP.
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Liberal
Denis Coderre Liberal Bourassa, QC
So you felt that someone had fiddled with the process and that you had been put off in the awarded contracts. Is that it?
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Vice-President, Montreal, Broccolini Construction Inc.
I don't know whether anyone fiddled with the process. I know we responded to a call for tenders.
That started in June 2007, with a Request for Information, followed by a Request for Qualification, to which we responded. We had the highest score, 83%. We didn't know who the other bidders were, but we got the highest result. That was followed by a Request for Proposal and we submitted our bid in September 2008. We were the sole bidder. Our bid was opened publicly.
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Liberal
Denis Coderre Liberal Bourassa, QC
I'm out of time, Mr. Broccolini, but I'm going to ask you other questions later.
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Liberal
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Bloc
Marc Lemay Bloc Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
I will probably be sharing my allotted time with Ms. Bourgeois because I have a few questions to ask Mr. Fortier.
Earlier we were talking about updates, you and I, so we'll try to continue a little on that subject.
Who gave those updates every two or three months and who was there?
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Former Minister of Public Works and Government Services, As an Individual
It was the head of the department's real property division.
