Paul Massicotte
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Paul J. Massicotte (born September 10, 1951 in Manitoba, Canada) is a businessman and Canadian Senator representing the Senate division of De Lanaudière, Quebec.
Massicotte is Chief Executive Officer of the Alexis Nihon Real Estate Investment Trust in Montreal. He has also served on the boards of directors of the Canadian Institute of Public Real Estate Companies, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Bank of Canada and was one of the founding directors of the Urban Development Institute of Quebec.
He was appointed to the Senate on June 26, 2003 on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and sits in the Upper House as a Liberal.
In June 2005, a complaint was filed against Massicotte with the Senate's ethics commissioner. Massicotte was alleged to be in a conflict of interest for being a Liberal Senator while also heading a real estate company that collects millions of dollars in lease payments from the federal government. Should a Liberal senator be allowed to collect a government paycheque and continue as CEO of a company that collects $99 millions of dollars a year in lease payments each year from the federal government.
In his complaint, Conservative Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre cited the section of the Parliament of Canada Act which states "No person who is a member of the Senate shall directly or indirectly, knowingly and wilfully be a party to or be concerned in any contract under which the public money of Canada is to be paid."
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