Word: rouleau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disdaining the complaints, Pearson announced a Cabinet reshuffle that was designed to look like reform but was at best a halfway housecleaning. To his credit, Pearson did take care of one little problem that was hanging fire. Guy Rouleau, the P.M.'s own parliamentary secretary, had been involved in the case and had resigned; now Pearson drummed Rouleau out of the House of Commons and the party altogether...
...Offer. The Favreau incident has been festering since last summer when Montreal Lawyer Pierre Lamontagne, 30, went to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with a story that four highly placed Liberals-Raymond Denis, 32, then executive assistant to the Immigration Minister; Guy Rouleau, 42, Pearson's own parliamentary secretary; Andre Letendre, 34, Favreau's executive assistant; and Guy Lord, 26, a former special assistant to Favreau-were pressuring him to take it easy in an extradition case. Lamontagne was working for the U.S. Justice Department, which sought the extradition of one Lucien Rivard, a Montreal racketeer wanted...
Pearson seemed surprised by the fuss. Denis had already quietly resigned; Pearson now accepted Guy Rouleau's resignation and appointed Chief Justice Dorion as a one-man commission of public inquiry. To make matters worse, in the midst of the investigation Racketeer Rivard escaped from Montreal's Bordeaux Jail, has not been seen since...