Quebec is distant from Gardaworld, which has just obtained a contract of $ 8 million in the controversial prison “L’Alcatraz des Alligators”.
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In 2022, the Ministry of the Economy, then led by Pierre Fitzgibbon, lent $ 300 million to GardaWorld.
At the time, it was to “allow him to make several acquisitions outside Quebec and make investments at his head office as well as to his center of excellence”.
“This investment was therefore made before GardaWorld’s involvement in this project [la prison controversée]”, Insisted on Friday the cabinet of Minister Christine Fréchette, when asked by The newspaper.
GardaWorld has not provided details on this contract at Journal.
The Quebec Minister of Economy, Christine Fréchette.
Photo Ben Pelosse
The press Reported earlier than a publication by LinkedIn de Gardawolrd showed that the company is looking for security agents in this corner of the country.
A job offer published on the Indeed site consulted by The newspaper mentions agent positions at $ 30 per hour, at the rate of 60 hours per week. Workers must sleep on site. Meals and accommodation are provided.
“Employees can be exposed to extremely cold or hot weather conditions, smoke or particles suspended in the air, toxic or caustic chemicals and strong noises,” read raw.
“Inhuman conditions”
In recent days, this place of detention of migrants has been clearly criticized by human rights organizations.
“With the opening of this center, the government is strengthening a system already marked by inhuman conditions,” said Human Right Watch.
The Trump administration, on the other hand, boasts this prison surrounded by alligators to mark the imagination.
Amazon sold caps and clothes with the image of the controversial center on Friday.
Image taken from Amazon Canada
Up to 5000 people can be detained in the prison. It will cost more than $ 612 million a year to the US Treasury.
Trump visit
To mark the occasion, American president, Donald Trump, wandered in person in the prison in the heart of the swamps, in Ochopee, last Tuesday.
“We have a lot of cops in the form of alligators, you don’t need to pay them as much,” said the joke on the 47e American president. More than 200,000 alligators sometimes measuring more than four meters prowl in the waters of the national park around Everglades.
Donald Trump, Ron Desantis and Kristi Noem visited the controversial detention center on July 1.
Photo AFP
Trendy business
The Miami Herald Reported that one of the GardaWorld subsidiaries, Garda World Cash, made a donation of $ 5,000 to a political action committee of the Florida Republican, Ron Desantis, in 2018.
At the end of June, our investigation office revealed that the federalum would pay $ 26 million to the Garda firm to monitor migrants deemed “at high risk” imprisoned in Quebec.
We learned that he was only new for now.
– With the collaboration of Nora T. Lamontagne
