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Ottawa’s Capital Pride festival organizers say they are investigating “accounting irregularities” and one supplier to the festival says he hasn’t been paid for his services.
Guillaume Tasse said he has been given the runaround by festival organizers since he went to collect $42,000 he said he was owed after last month’s festival.
Organizers for the Capital Pride festival weren’t talking Thursday, but in a short media release said they are investigating “accounting irregularities that have come to light upon review of its post-festival finances” and said a police investigation “may be pending.”
Tasse said his attempts to collect on a bill for providing tents, toilets, tables, chairs and other infrastructure to the festival have not been successful. He initially approached Capital Pride festival’s treasurer, Giselle Gardipy, he said, but a meeting they set for Monday, Aug. 25 did not take place.
Tasse said was told by board members that Gardipy was in hospital, but they had no other details.
“I told them to keep me posted and I left. The next day they gave me a call and Giselle was still in the hospital and they haven’t talked to her and they didn’t know exactly what was going on,” Tasse said.
The Citizen’s attempts to reach Gardipy, who was the first aboriginal person to win the title of Miss Gay Ottawa in 2005 and Queen of Capital Pride in 2006, were unsuccessful Thursday. Gardipy’s given name is Daryle.
Tasse said on Wednesday, Aug. 27, the chair of Capital Pride’s board of directors told him the board would have no further contact with him. Tasse said he and the other supplier have made continued attempts to contact the board to no avail. Tasse alleges that the $10,000 deposit cheque he was provided has since bounced.
“We sent multiple emails, we tried calling them for multiple days after that and there was no answer, no one returned our email,” he said.
Tasse said in one email he offered to work with festival organizers if they were facing financial problems.
“We can talk, we can figure it out,” Tasse said he offered. “That was ignored completely.”
“I feel betrayed because we tried to help that event and support them. I gave them a $10,000 sponsorship,” said Tasse.
In their media release, Capital Pride organizers vowed to “continue to uphold its transparency with the LGBT community and its allies as details surrounding this situation emerge.”
Capital Pride chair McNamara declined an interview request, citing the advice of their lawyer. Assistant treasurer Stephanie Lavergne also declined to answer questions about the suppliers while board secretary Rob Swartz wouldn’t comment.
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Guillaume Tasse said he has been given the runaround by festival organizers since he went to collect $42,000 he said he was owed after last month’s festival.
Organizers for the Capital Pride festival weren’t talking Thursday, but in a short media release said they are investigating “accounting irregularities that have come to light upon review of its post-festival finances” and said a police investigation “may be pending.”
Tasse said his attempts to collect on a bill for providing tents, toilets, tables, chairs and other infrastructure to the festival have not been successful. He initially approached Capital Pride festival’s treasurer, Giselle Gardipy, he said, but a meeting they set for Monday, Aug. 25 did not take place.
Tasse said was told by board members that Gardipy was in hospital, but they had no other details.
“I told them to keep me posted and I left. The next day they gave me a call and Giselle was still in the hospital and they haven’t talked to her and they didn’t know exactly what was going on,” Tasse said.
The Citizen’s attempts to reach Gardipy, who was the first aboriginal person to win the title of Miss Gay Ottawa in 2005 and Queen of Capital Pride in 2006, were unsuccessful Thursday. Gardipy’s given name is Daryle.
Tasse said on Wednesday, Aug. 27, the chair of Capital Pride’s board of directors told him the board would have no further contact with him. Tasse said he and the other supplier have made continued attempts to contact the board to no avail. Tasse alleges that the $10,000 deposit cheque he was provided has since bounced.
“We sent multiple emails, we tried calling them for multiple days after that and there was no answer, no one returned our email,” he said.
Tasse said in one email he offered to work with festival organizers if they were facing financial problems.
“We can talk, we can figure it out,” Tasse said he offered. “That was ignored completely.”
“I feel betrayed because we tried to help that event and support them. I gave them a $10,000 sponsorship,” said Tasse.
In their media release, Capital Pride organizers vowed to “continue to uphold its transparency with the LGBT community and its allies as details surrounding this situation emerge.”
Capital Pride chair McNamara declined an interview request, citing the advice of their lawyer. Assistant treasurer Stephanie Lavergne also declined to answer questions about the suppliers while board secretary Rob Swartz wouldn’t comment.
aseymour@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/andrew_seymour
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