Michel Chretien, the former PM's son, was 21 when he was sentenced to three years in federal prison for sexually assaulting a woman who was drunk and passed out. After barely 18 months behind bars, the younger Chretien was eligible for a parole hearing in July 1996.
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Gibbs recalls the PM called him at home in the evening, saying "he could not understand why it was taking so long for the parole board to make a decision in a case as straightforward as his son's.
"He accused me of running an outfit full of incompetents," Gibbs says. "He said the government had put me in there to straighten things out, but that they had obviously gotten worse. Apart from being angry and shocked by the phone call, I was also thoroughly disgusted."
Gibbs says he was also approached on the case by the commissioner of corrections who, in turn, said he had been contacted by the PM's deputy, the highest-ranking bureaucrat in the government.
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