Jack Triassi

 

Racism was all too common at the Montreal Tax Service Office in the years before the department of National Revenue was converted to an Agency in 1999 (CCRA); which only 4 years later was again reorganized to the present day Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

Unfortunately racism still rears its ugly head at the agency, as we’ve noted in past posts.

Today we’d like to report on an incident involving Jack Triassi.

Back in 2003-2004 while in the position of Manager of Audit SME (small and medium enterprises) Jack Triassi instructed members of a selection committee in a PM-02 competition not to hire any Haitian applicants who might be applying from Revenue Quebec. Fortunately for Mr. Triassi. the investigation into the matter was ended quickly after it began.

The reason why Mr. Triassi was unwilling to hire any Haitian applicants was due to the fact that in the previous training group hired in late 2001, 1 Haitian was fired because he could not do the job... So for one bad apple an entire community were tarnished, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of workers with Haitian ethnicity at the CRA do a wonderful job.

Mr. Triassi however had no problem bypassing the rules when hiring Patrick Bélanger and George Sayegh on the instructions of Michel Gionet. Mr. Triassi also authorized that Marc André Rathé be hired at a higher salary than all of the other colleagues who were hired at the same time at the PM-02 level; just because André Rathé’s father was a CRA director.

To put it bluntly Mr. Triassi was never well liked, he was considered a rat, and back stabber.

So now we find out that in order to deflect scrutiny directed towards him by the RCMP, Mr. Triassi was throwing members of his own community under the bus. On many occasions he volunteered misleading information in an attempt to deviate the attention from himself when he realized that the RCMP was investigating him.

What will the tax community think about you, Mr. Triassi, when they find out about this?

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Of course Mr. Triassi is not the only racist at the Montreal TSO: There was a very racial incident that happened in the training group hired in 2001; that group included Yvon Talbot; who complained that the English group of employees were making more changes (recovering more income tax dollars from their audit changes) and closing more files than he and his group because as he put it (remember this is the reasoning of a racist) they (the English group) were giving away all their findings just to close a file.

So let’s try and understand this logic… the English group was giving away audit results in order to close files more quickly. How could that be? Logically the group not giving away audit findings would have the better results, no? Or are we missing something?

Some members of the English group asked that Paul Lemieux, the team leader of the training group, fire that racist incompetent clown Yvon Talbot; however Paul Lemieux did not have the heart to do it… which is ironic because today Mr. Lemieux often receives hate mail from that same employee that he helped years ago.

We’ve also been told by the Italo-Canadian ex-employees of the CRA that Mr. Talbot is always prepared to make false allegations against others, but in a courtroom he is easily brought to tears as he recently did in a Laval courtroom when he admitted in front of a judge that he had committed a criminal act by destroying documents belonging to the CRA.

His lies were also prominently featured in affidavits used to order the release of the famous “Bell Centre” pictures to the media.

Mr. Talbot even starred in a RCMP video which has been labelled as 90 minutes of lies by those same ex-employees who’ve seen it. Of course, in the future, he will be given the time to reflect upon his statements and, again, cry on the witness stand.