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June 16, 2021

Snow removal firm was screen for barred contractor: inspector general

Montreal’s inspector general has cancelled three snow clearing contracts worth $8 million with a firm that acted as a front for a contractor barred from bidding on city jobs.

In 2017, Montreal blacklisted Excavation Anjou and its owner, Yvan Dubé, until March 2022 for acting as a front for another towing contractor who had been barred for collusion.

According to a report by inspector general Brigitte Bishop, an investigation found that Dubé was closely tied to Déneigement Na-Sa, a company owned by his wife, Nancy Desjardins, and son, Samuel Dubé.

“Na-Sa is in reality only a screen for the company Excavation Anjou Inc.,” Bishop wrote in a report tabled in city council Monday.

The investigation followed three tips to the inspector general on the company, also known as 11073192 Canada Inc.

Desjardins and Samuel Dubé, who founded the company on Oct. 31, 2018, insisted that Yvan Dubé had no connections with the firm. However, when the IG put Dubé under surveillance in January, he was spotted monitoring snow-removal contracts, chatting with foremen and employees in the company’s garage, being at the wheel of a company truck, putting up no-parking signs and repairing vehicles.

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