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Operation Jakob is an ongoing operation that has successfully gathered factual elements and evidence surrounding justice administration in criminal cases that occurred in the province of Quebec, and that establishes interference (thus corruption) into the judicial process.

A featured case occurred on Friday, May 29, 2009 in the municipality of Plaisance a locality in western Quebec, Canada. Several other cases that occured in other localities will also be touched upon.

The stage is set, as outlined in a Maclean article written by Martin Patriquin, entitled "Quebec: The most corrupt province - Why does Quebec claim so many of the nation’s political scandals?, as published on September 24, 2010 about widespread corruption in the province.

Here are some excerpts from Patriquin's article:

"In the past two years, the government has lurched from one scandal to the next, from political financing to favouritism ...to corruption ..."

"This slew of dodgy business is only the most recent in a long line of made-in-Quebec corruption that has affected the province’s political culture at every level."

"The province’s dubious history stretches further back to the 1970s, and to the widespread corruption in the construction industry ... Much of the industry ... was “composed of tricksters, crooks and scum” whose ties to the Montreal mafia, and predilection for violence, was renowned."

"... the history of corruption is sufficiently long and deep in Quebec that it has bred a culture of mistrust of the political class. It raises an uncomfortable question: why is it that politics in Canada’s bête noire province seem perpetually rife with scandal?"

"Quebec stands in a league of its own"

"Yet corruption didn’t disappear; it just took another form. Under the Quiet Revolution, Quebec underwent an unprecedented modernization, both in mindset and of the bricks and-mortar variety."

"... the arguably ironic casting of Mulroney as an anti-corruption crusader ..."

“I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’m just saying it hasn’t been proven.”

There is just one step from government to judicial, from businesses to judicial, because judicial is the glue that holds it all together, because judicial has a set of age old schemes that renders it "unaccountable" of their acts.

Googling the topic brings up a wealth of articles from varied and unrelated sources that point in the same direction:

"On the 11 categories tested, Quebec gets the worst mark in Canada for corruption in the private sector, public service, the judiciary and the education system."

"... Quebec’s economic prospects — or lack thereof — likely have contributed to its status as “the most corrupt province in Canada.”

"Quebec had been described by historians as far back as 1968 as the most corrupt region of North America."