Canadian authorities may finally be able to get their hands on Arthur Porter, the former head of Canada’s spy-agency watchdog and the one time CEO of McGill University’s hospital network. Police want to charge him in connection with corruption scandals rampant in the province of Quebec.
Porter and his wife, Pamela, were detained by Panamanian authorities and face extradition to Canada.
Porter is accused of being at the heart of a scandal involving the construction of a $1.3-billion megal-hospital project in Montreal. He was in the Bahamas and said he was too ill with cancer to travel to Canada to face charges, but he welcomed authorities to question him in Nassau.
Montrealers are aghast at the wide ranging corruption involving the awarding of public contracts being revealed at a public inquiry.
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