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He isn’t chanting “lock them up,” but Jean-François Lisée says the Liberal party needs to be held accountable for years of alleged corruption.

During a campaign stop in Montreal Thursday, the Parti Québécois leader pondered why, after “so many investigations” into claims of Liberal corruption, more people aren’t in jail.

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“When we were in power, Mayor (Gilles) Vaillancourt was arrested, Montreal Mayor (Michael) Applebaum was arrested,” he said. “But when the Liberals took office, all of a sudden the wheels of justice move slowly.”

After being hit with a series of corruption scandals alleging improper connections between party fundraisers and construction magnates, the Liberal government created the permanent anti-corruption squad (or UPAC) in 2011.

Under mounting pressure from the PQ and Coalition Avenir Québec, the Liberals mandated the Charbonneau Commission into corruption in the construction industry in 2012.