The Gallant report on SAAQclic

This editorial by Brian Myles does the best job I’ve seen of assessing the long‑awaited report from the Gallant commission on what went so wrong with SAAQclic.

It seems to still be unclear who knew what when – how long Karl Malenfant was able to truly keep the premier, his finance minister and his transport minister in the dark, and how much Legault knew and chose to keep from the public till it was impossible to keep under wraps any longer. Legault continues to hold that his government did not know.

Some of this is bound to end up in court.

Tuesday, the Gazette’s Allison Hanes writes a column taking the report to exonerate the elected officials, but that ignores the looming fact that the politicians washed their hands for far too long of the need to keep an eye on a project of that size. Claiming that they were lied to for that long and that completely doesn’t hold up well as a testament to their intelligence or sense of responsibility for public funds.