MONTREAL – Public hearings in the Quebec corruption inquiry have been adjourned until January.
The Charbonneau Commission has been looking at several items including the current focus on corruption in the construction industry.
The recent focus has been on the Quebec Federation of Labour, its construction wing and its union-investment fund.
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Among other things, illegal political financing and union infiltration by organized crime will be probed in the new year.
After being pressed for time earlier this year, the inquiry saw its mandate extended by 18 months until April 2015.
As part of that extension, Justice Minister Bertrand St-Arnaud asked for an interim report by the end of January to give the government ideas on how to proceed with laws and policy.
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Earlier this year, the inquiry heard from an array of witnesses, including engineering executives, city councillors, mayors, construction bosses and city officials.
They touched on everything from illegal political party financing, to engineering firms colluding on contracts, to organized crime’s tentacles in the industry.
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