Shocking Corruption : Quebec in the Charbonneau Era

For 4 years, the province of Quebec has been plagued by corruption scandals as well as cases of fraud and collusion. On a daily basis, the media, police and the Charbonneau Commission have revealed to shocked Quebecers the scale of a system that was used for decades in the awarding of public contracts and political financing. This system has included scams involving players at the most senior levels of government and the civil service as well as the Mafia, in Montreal and Laval. Danielle Young reports on the genesis of an unprecedented large-scale cleanup operation taking place in Quebec.