The former president of the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) Dominique Ollivier criticized on Tuesday the investigation by the Auditor General of Montreal relating in particular to her spending allocations.
Mme Ollivier deplored not having been able to explain himself to the teams of Auditor General Andrée Cossette before she wrote her report.
“A fundamental principle of natural justice is that when we accuse someone of something, we allow them to present their version of the facts,” she wrote on social networks. “I publicly and privately offered my collaboration to the VG. She chose not to hear me before concluding. For what ? »
The most recent annual report from the General Auditor of the City of Montreal highlights the way in which the funds entrusted to the OCPM were spent between 2014 and 2021. The organization did not have a “rigorous management framework nor [d’un] effective and formal external monitoring mechanism” to regulate the powers of its president, concludes the Auditor General. “This notably led to expenses whose necessity and relevance could not be demonstrated. » The majority of meal expenses exceeded the scale applicable to the City of Montreal, according to the report.
Dominique Ollivier, now a municipal councilor in Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie, was not present at the municipal council to hear the presentation from General Auditor Andrée Cossette.
She refused to reveal the list of people met by her team, but assured that she had respected all procedures in drawing up her report on the OCPM.
On Monday, three elected representatives from Projet Montréal confirmed that they wanted to keep Dominique Ollivier within the caucus of Valérie Plante’s political party.