The Caisse controversy just won't go away
Sabia's appointment still draws fire, and not just because he is a 'Canadian'
It is inaccurate to call the appointment of Michael Sabia as president of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec a political train wreck. At least a wrecked train stops rolling. Two weeks after the appointment, however, the Sabia controversy rolls on. Yesterday's Quebec papers reported, some on their front pages, that the Caisse president was giving up the $235,000-a-year pension for life he would receive...