Albert Joseph Delaire sentenced...

Albert Joseph Delaire, the former chair of the Métis Addictions Council of Saskatchewan, was sentenced to a year in jail for defrauding the organization. He pleaded guilty to committing six counts of fraud and forgery between 2001 and 2004, including forging invoices and service contracts and authorizing payments to himself for work that was never done. Delaire was the minister of health for the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan and chair of the board overseeing the addictions council. The Crown contends that Delaire stole $400,000 from the organization, but the defense says it was between $40,000 and $50,000. Justice Gerry Allbright did not order Delaire to pay any of the money back, though he called the situation a “significant abuse of trust.”