(Montreal) The Disciplinary Council of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec has withdrawn the license to practice and imposed a $ 50,000 fine on the former head of the SM Group, Bernard Poulin, for his involvement in the corruption scandals revealed by the Charbonneau commission.
Mr. Poulin was declared “guilty of having tolerated and neglected to take measures to prevent his firm from being involved in a system of sharing contracts for engineering mandates, in particular for the City of Montreal and the City of Longueuil ”between the years 2002 and 2009, indicates the Order in a press release published Monday.
“He also lacked integrity in his professional obligations by paying a municipal political party sums of money likely to provide him with advantages, such as obtaining contracts for his firm”, it is also written. The money had been given to Bernard Trépanier, then a fundraiser for the Union Montreal party.
The disciplinary council’s decision was taken last November.