English as she is wrote

Actual lead in a story in yesterday's Montreal Gazette:

How can it be, Parti Qu�b�cois leader Bernard Landry wondered allowed yesterday, he knew aluminum giant Alcan Inc. was to announce the closing of its Saguenay smeltering operation two weeks ago in Davos, and Premier Jean Charest, who was attending an economic forum in the Swiss town, claims he did not?

Never mind the clumsy syntax -- wondered allowed?