Haitian cop says Canadian-trained compatriots getting paid for doing no work
MONTREAL (CP) - A Haitian police officer says about 50 colleagues who were sent to Regina to be trained more than a decade ago continue to get paid for doing nothing.
Insp. Jean Fritz Magny says Canada spent $2 million to train the Haitians in 1994.
But he maintains they are still getting paid even though they haven't been working since they returned home.
Magny, 48, says the officers continue to be paid by the Haitian government in order to justify the money spent by Ottawa to train them.
He says the officers are receiving about US$140 a month.
Magny held a Montreal news conference to say he wants Canadians to know their money is being wasted.
He also claims that 75 per cent of illegal drugs which are distributed by streets gangs in Montreal schools comes from Haiti.