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Gomery blames Chrétien for sponsorship flaws
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Nov 01, 2005 11:44am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, November 1, 2005 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former prime minister Jean Chrétien and his chief of staff must be held responsible for the flawed running of the federal sponsorship program from 1994 to 2003, Justice John Gomery said in his first report on the scandal, made public Tuesday.
Prime Minister Paul Martin has referred the report to the RCMP for possible criminal investigations.
Gomery also assigned blame to a handful of other people involved in the $332 million scheme to raise the federal government's visibility, primarily in post-sovereignty-referendum Quebec.
They include Chuck Guité, the "untouchable" bureaucrat who considered the program his baby and used it to reward friends as well as Liberal-linked ad firms, and Jean Corriveau, a good friend of Chrétien's who ran a "kickback scheme" to funnel taxpayers' dollars from the program to his own pocket and the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Also implicated is former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano, "who chose to perpetuate the irregular manner of directing the sponsorship program."
Exonerated by the report was Paul Martin, who was Chretien's minister of finance during most of the time the sponsorship program was in operation. |
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