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Astonishing!!! A freaking Quebec judge, Ellen Paré, which can be seen here,



hired a contractor to renovate her kitchen, but she paid the contractor with no receipt and no tax, how would we call that, under the table?

The work was butchered, so she sued the contractor for $7,000 in small claims court to get refunded $5,000 + $1,500 in dommage & intérêts

Both the judge and the contractor are no shame claiming they fraudulently declared no work & no taxes & no receipt.

A first ruling in September awarded the judge with $5,000 refund + $500 in interests, but a 2nd judgment only gave her $1,500 refund for the butchered work.

Which means it's okay, if you're a judge, to hire someone under the table. It's ok, because it's freakin corrupted Quebec*. I'm totally *bleep* too, because up to even recently, Quebec was paying MILLIONS of dollars $$$$ in tv commercials telling us, normal and at the bottom of the social scale way overtaxed citizens so them ministers can sheit in gold toilet bowl*, while people on welfare can ship their kids in a 7$/day day care*, that paying under the table is ILLEGAL, and have the province lose BILLIONS in unpaid taxes.

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2013/0 ... e-jugement

*in reference to "la commission charbonneau", which opened the window on the construction scandal, & politics, and which led Montreal's & Laval mayors to take off.

*in reference to Pauline Marois Prime Minister spending $400,000 on silent toilet bowl

*in reference to the news article saying, it's allowed, welfare people need a brake too. And 7$/day daycare in quebec is subsidized by equalizations payment we, BC tax payers, pay.

So how can you fix a system that is corrupt when those who are supposed to keep it honest are corrupt themselves?

I would hope she would lose her job over this, but suspect she won't.

Being corrupt in quebec is a way of life, they and the natives are on the same wave length, they feel entitled

Not that I'm sticking up for the Judge, but what did she do wrong?

She sourced a deal and found a guy who does shady work and gets paid what he's worth. It may be a lesson to her, you get what you pay for. Now in saying that, I know some big time operators here, who charge high and don't give quality but that's another page.


The shady carpenter, he's the one who fails to pay taxes. Unless the two made an arrangement where she was told, "I can give you a deal, but I won't pay taxes on doing your work"

Ken7 wrote:Not that I'm sticking up for the Judge, but what did she do wrong?"

Being a judge is what she did wrong.