Portions of the testimony of the Gomery hearings that was kept under publication ban have now been lifted. National Post editorializes by stating the testimony is “not nearly as sensational” as the evidence given last spring. Says who?
The cash flow eventually ran both ways, according to the evidence released Friday, several months after Justice John Gomery struck it with a publication ban last spring.
Both men said that after he left the federal civil service in 1999, Guite collected thousands of dollars for advising Brault on how to boost his business, often at the expense of taxpayers.
Guite and Brault are now charged with conspiracy and defrauding the government of nearly $2 million. Their trial is set for May 2006. The testimony revealed Friday does not touch on any of the contracts that resulted in criminal charges.
The testimony does illustrate the cosy, back-scratching environment that exploded into the $250-million sponsorship fiasco, which featured ad agencies and other middle-men collecting $100 million, often for little or no work.
The scandal, which featured startling testimony of cash being left in envelopes on restaurant tables and of sponsorship money being funnelled to the Quebec wing of the federal Liberals, almost brought down the Liberal government last spring.
According to Brault’s testimony, his involvement began at the Vancouver Molson Indy auto race in 1995 where Guite taught him how federal sponsorships were really run.
“That’s where he showed me that there was a sponsorship the government gave to (advertising company) Lafleur, and by spending three days in jeans with a beer in hand it’s much easier to establish contacts,” Brault said in the testimony.
“It was the first time that I would say I sowed, as we say in the business, a little seed to get one of these non-conventional contracts.”
The ground provided by the Liberal government was fertile, to put it mildly.
Guite said that once he left the public service in 1999 he worked on contracts for Groupaction, receiving $76,000 from the company through August 2000.
Brault said he had put Guite on a $10,000 monthly retainer by 2001 for his “vast knowledge of … the potential of different organizations working on communications in Canada.”
Guite was no rogue civil servant – he was brought into Public Works at the request of then minister David Dingwall to to “centralize federal ad strategy”.
(Other recent posts on the scandal-ridden Dingwall here)
Same old same old.
Canadians apparently aren’t bothered by this stuff.
They vote strictly on the Health Care lies.
Oh yes, and the lies about Quebec staying or going.
Other government lies also influence, but the biggies are listed above.
When will it end?
I don’t see anything coming that will change the Toronto Pinkos minds about anything expecially since most of them don’t speak English. And those who do, don’t understand it.
Wake me up when you start handing out the pitch forks and torches.
Interesting read about the incestuousness (sp?) of Ottawa…Liberal Ottawa
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=1845&e=3&u=/cpress/20051014/ca_pr_on_na/dingwall_web
Duke, you hit the nail (clous) right on the head (tete). Merde. We are surrounded by sleepwalkers. If a miracle is to happen, people gotta wake up. I cannot believe the crap that people get served, and they still come back for more. Sad.
Doubting Thomas and Duke, You are both correct.
It would cost the CPC a lot, but if you could get an easy to read Two page summary of all the major crimes of the Libranos into the hands of 80% of Canadians, there may be a stirring of interest.
The summary would heve to be on apricot coloured stock so it stands out and it would be available in restaurants, doctor’s offices, and just about everywhere possible.
The nature of the MSM is every story isolated and no real diplay of the FULL picture anywhere.
Surrounded by sleepwalkers! I knew Canadians were something! TG
PS Music…helps.
People who find CDBaby, stick to CDBaby!
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Who/What are we?
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We’re just a few people in a cool Portland, Oregon, CD warehouse that looks like a playground. We listen to every CD we sell before we sell it, so we can help you find other albums you’ll like.
We only sell CDs that come directly from musicians. No distributors.
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Cool thing: in a regular record deal or distribution deal, musicians only make $1-$2 per CD, if they ever get paid by their label. When selling through CD Baby, musicians make $6-$12 per CD, and get paid weekly.
Derek Sivers and his Oregon music gurus are a breath of real fresh air… TG at http://My.Opera.com/T-G/
The stupidity of the average Canadian voter makes me so mad I could just grab my gopher gun and… register it!
[Time Warp: bought my first shotgun at a barber shop(and my first fishing rod too)]
In all honesty I think the vote should be restricted to those with a brain. I don’t think the Liberano$$$ could do anything that would hurt their cause. Bribes, fraud, theft, money laundering, off shore accounts (and ships) and the voters still love it. Only thing missing is sex and that is only if you don’t consider what Joe and Jane Taxpayer is getting up the wazoo!
Canadians seem to have lost their identity of late and try to address it by being anti-something or other. To want to change in Canada means you must want to be American and all good (left thinking) Canucks are anti-American.
Best line I’ve heard lately is: “A Canadian is just an unarmed American with a healthplan.”
Just my 2 cents(usd) worth…
Hey, maybe another 8,000,000 more immigrants will help! http://tinyurl.com/7f2v7
John: Voterama.
Mark
Ottawa
Tony, perhaps this is a start: Guide to Scandals>>
PoliticsWatch Feature
Another session of scandals
by Romeo St. Martin
[PoliticsWatch posted 6:15 p.m. October 11, 2005]
Former Liberal cabinet minister David Dingwall’s name has come up in three of the current controversies in Ottawa.
The first two weeks of the fall session of Parliament have been dominated by old and new scandals in the nation’s capital.
Political and government scandals appear to have no end sight with new ones cropping up on an almost weekly basis.
PoliticsWatch presents its latest reader’s guide to the top scandals and scams.
Sponsorship Scandal>>>>>>> more
http://www.politicswatch.com/scandals-oct11-2005.html
Hey Mark, I’m back couldn’t stay away. Oh just so you know the British TV show I like best these days is Foyles War. And of course Dr. Who although haven’t seen it back yet this year on the Mother Corp. UUUGGGGHHH.
Lord it just never stops these two clowns were even scamming top of the line tires for one of their cars at tax payers expense.
I’m at a loss of what can be done. Truly flumoxed. People just keep letting them get away with it. The political types just steal, lie, cheat then deny or spew some gobbledeegook and keep on truckin.
HELP! HELP! HELP! Will it never end. Will it never cease. Are we doomed to be governed by a crimminal
organization forever.
You’re dealing with a MSM that suffers from a collective case of ADHD. They were as high as coked-out guppies when the story first broke, couldn’t sustain it, so now, the story is a big yawn for them. But the public won’t forget. Add to that all the little things simmering, including Dingwall, and the obscene $6.5B surplus for this year, while Canadians are being gouged, who knows? But it feels like the worm is turning, and it might just be enough to have a Tory win. Martin looks like an absolute idiot posturing as Johnny Canuck taking on the Yanks. As Gomery peels back the layers, watch Libs being deployed all over the place, Canada and abroad. Is Bruno in Pakistan with Pettigrew I wonder? Does our resident fop need burly Bruno in the midst of all that rubble?
like most, who have been conned, Canadians have a hard time admitting they are gullible and have been conned by the Liberals. It is hard to say…. I have been a fool. That is what the Tories have to get Canadians, especially those in Central Canada, to admit. They have been conned by consumate con-artists into accepting that Mr. Harper is scary, that the Liberals are the natural governing party, that corruption is good for the country and that corruption is an established Canadian trait. Oops… that last part I made up.
Conned by the Librano$$$$$$$$ ? Consider Doer & Doer, NDP, bed-partners with Librano$$$$$$ chicanery. Librano$$$ are everywhere in Canada (check under your bed).>>>
2002 WPC: Premier Gary Doer
Gary Doer, sworn in as Manitoba’s 20th Premier on October 5, 1999, … Mr.
Doer, the former President of the Manitoba Government Employees Association and … >>> more
Premier’s wife scores $500K WCB contract
WINNIPEG – A polling company co-owned by Premier Gary Doer’s wife, Ginny Devine, landed a $500,000 contract from the Workers Compensation Board (WCB) to provide the Crown corporation with services for the next five years. While the province says there is no conflict of interest, the award raises red flags among critics. (Calgary Sun)>>>
primetimecrime.com
Ottawa seen getting 41% of oilsands tax take.
Feds will collect 51 billion in corporate and personal taxes.
Montreal Gazette/business/Oct/14
Maz2 Red flags of conflicting interests and more proof that we need a Federal regulator of Polls, like an Underwriter’s Laboritoy of Appliances or a Canada home standards building code, the public polls registrar would allow us to have small amount of faith in poll results.
The way things stand now, I wouldn’t even let my dog near a *Poll*, much less trust the results of one.
And Maz2, thank you for the pointer, Politics Watch… October 11th… Great! ‘3s TG
“Hey, maybe another 8,000,000 more immigrants will help! http://tinyurl.com/7f2v7“
Minister: Canada Needs More Immigrants
MONTREAL – Canada’s foreign affairs minister said Thursday that the country badly needed more immigrants to replace aging workers who are headed for retirement…
I don’t understand. Since when did Citizenship & Immigration & HRSDC become part of Foreign ffairs’ portfolio? Are Volpe & Belinda now reporting to Pettigrew? Or is this a strategic move on part of the government whereby every Minister is required to regurgitate the same party-line on another Minister’s portfolio in order to brainwash the masses into believing that what they’re telling us must be true?
Librano$$$$$$$$ are everywhere in Canada! Check under your bed!!!
Charest Dragged Into AdScam (bourque.org)
By STEPHANIE RUBEC, Parliamentary Bureau
Groupaction Marketing founder Jean Brault has dragged Quebec Premier Jean Charest into the sponsorship scandal thanks to his newly released Adscam testimony.
Brault told Justice John Gomery March 31 that he was asked by former sponsorship head Chuck Guite to make a secret $50,000 donation to Charest’s 1998 election campaign after he began receiving lucrative federal sponsorships.
Brault said he was surprised when Guite instructed him to cut a cheque for Charest in the runup to the November 28, 1998, Quebec vote. >>> more
http://www.rapp.org/url/?5M9QB1CM
ottawa sun