"Business as usual" in municipal politics.
A farmer dreams of the day when he will sell his farm and retire in style. But the mayor and his cronies dream of buying the farm at a discount and living in style.
- To get him to sell, the city of Laval raises his taxes from $5,000 to $35,000 in one year.
- Then the mayor's brother approaches the despondent farmer with a low ball offer to "take the farm off his hands".
- The rezoning occurs and the real profits start.
Duchesneau denounced what happened to retired Laval farmer Yvon Vanier, 72, as a form of “senior abuse,” but said his case is not isolated....
- “It is repugnant, it enrages me,” Duchesneau, a former police chief and crime-collusion fighter, said in an interview with The Gazette. “People are being abused.” Former Laval mayoral candidate Daniel Lefebvre, a longtime critic of Vaillancourt, said: “It’s sad for the farmer to be swindled like that.”...
What can DIRA do in such huge senior abuse cases?
