ndallen@uunet.uu.net (Nigel Allen) (07/19/90)
If you have been following the dispute between Mohawks and the Quebec provincial police, you may be interested to know that Sam Elkas, Quebec's Minister of Public Security (i.e. police and prisons) and transport, was director of Bell Canada's coin phone operation before he became a full-time politician. He also used to be mayor of a suburb of Montreal. As public security minister, he is politically responsible for the Surete du Quebec (to give the provincial police force its correct name), but the police raid on the Mohawk reservation was apparently initiated without consultation with Elkas. In any event, can anyone come up with any other telephone company management personnel who became politicians?