Adscam testimony that we’re hearing surprisingly little about these days…
A former vice-president of Groupaction, told Charles Guité’s fraud trial Wednesday that he feared for his life if he were to blow the whistle on what he saw as suspicious goings on between his ad agency and former prime minister Jean Chretien’s office.
“I wasn’t interested in having a hunting accident in my living room,” he testified. Lambert, who quit Groupaction in 2001, said he felt like his was trapped in a system with many tentacles, at the centre of which was Chretien.
Stay tuned.
Andrew Coyne notices the curious incuriousness as well;
“So the former VP of Groupaction becomes the second person connected with the sponsorship scandal to testify, under oath, to having been afraid someone would kill him — a fact CP neglects to mention until the eighth graf...”
I get the sense that Guite has a particular agenda, which is to focus on Chretien as the ultimate leader of Adscam. Chretien’s agenda was to define Adscam as caused by ‘a few rogues’ and dismiss the whole thing, including the millions, as irrelevant.
He ignored that the millions were actually laundered money, which was on the surface spent on ‘saving Quebec’ but was actually used to pay for work done to promote the Liberal Party in Quebec and maintain Chretien’s power.
Martin also tried to blame it on rogues, but on Chretien’s rogues.
Now, we have Guite focusing on Chretien as the major actor in the whole thing.
A Rogues Gallery.
But The Chief was The Chief.
Not a penny was spent from 1993 to 2003 without his personal involvement.
Of course the amazing thing is that the MSM is not even thinking about bringing up these testimonies onto the front page.
To not do so is to leave one of canada’s greatest criminals off the hook.
Hunting accident?
More likely to get brained with an Inuit carving.
The sad thing is that these revelations should be front and center in our National media. The fact that they are not is a terrible condemnation
of our institutions. No Nation can servive in the long run without a free and vigorous press.
How very sad for Canada.
Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
“The Unity Reserve”: Pool of unknown million$ of taxpayers’ monies for distribution personally by Chretien/Martin to Liberals, AdScam, & etc.
Look for key phrases:
$18.8 million, $75.7 million, $17 million, $35 million, $72 million. and more…. $
“The source of funds was the unity reserve.”
“Prime Minister [Chretien] indicated his policy approval”
“The source of funds was the fiscal framework”
$$$$$ “the source of funds was the the fiscal framework… pursuant to the Budget 2000.” Money not budgeted but sluiced in after the Budget was approved by Parliament: cooking the books, indeed.
$$$$$$$
“Treasury Board approved an increase to PWGSC reference levels in 2001-02 and ongoing of $40 million for sponsorship-related activities. The source of funds was the fiscal framework pursuant to Budget 2000. These amounts were included Main Estimates approved by Parliament.”
Extract from:
Document Prepared by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat for the Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities
146. On November 20, 1997, Treasury Board approved a request from PWGSC to include an item in the 1997-98 Supplementary Estimates of $18.8 million for communications priorities (TB 825713). The source of funds was the unity reserve, and the Prime Minister indicated his policy approval by signing the submission. In addition, PCO provided a memorandum to TBS confirming the Prime Minister’s authorization. These funds were approved by Parliament through the 1997-98 Supplementary Estimates B. PWGSC referred to these funds in their 1997-98 Departmental Performance Report. This amount was included as a line item under planned spending for “procurement of sponsorship for media events” in Section III – Financial Performance.
147. On December 11, 1997, Treasury Board approved the Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU) for 1998-99 (TB 825830). The ARLU submission included approval for authority to be delegated to TBS to approve technical adjustments to the ARLU. This delegated authority was used to approve an adjustment for PWGSC in the amount of $35 million for public relations and the print contract revolving fund. The source of funds was the unity reserve, and the Prime Minister indicated his policy approval in a November 20, 1997 memorandum from PCO to TBS. This memorandum addressed the initial request for $18 million. A subsequent memorandum was provided on March 20, 1998 from PCO to TBS indicating that the Prime Minister had provided policy approval for an additional allocation of $17 million from the unity reserve. The item of $35 million was included under “other operating costs” in the 1998-99 Main Estimates approved by Parliament.
148. On September 24, 1998, Treasury Board approved the creation of a position for an Assistant Deputy Minister, Government of Canada Communications Coordination Services, at the EX-04 level within PWGSC (TB 826505).
149. On December 10, 1998, Treasury Board approved the ARLU for 1999-00 (TB 826841). The Treasury Board Secretariat approved, in accordance with its delegated authority, the inclusion of $40 million for PWGSC for 1999-00. The source of funds was the fiscal framework pursuant to Budget 1999. The item was included in the 1999-2000 Main Estimates approved by Parliament.
150. On February 18, 1999, Treasury Board approved the 1998-99 Supplementary Estimates C (TB 827020). Included in these Supplementary Estimates was an item of $5 million for PWGSC for advertising costs associated with Budget 1999. The source of funds was the fiscal framework pursuant to Budget 1999. These funds were approved by Parliament through the 1998-1999 Supplementary Estimates C.
151. On December 9, 1999, Treasury Board approved the 2000-01 ARLU (TB 827730). In accordance with an authority delegated to TBS through this ARLU submission, TBS approved the inclusion of a $40 million item for PWGSC for sponsorship related activities. The source of funds was the fiscal framework pursuant to Budget 2000. This amount was included in the 2000-02 Main Estimates approved by Parliament.
152. On December 16, 1999, Treasury Board approved the inclusion of an item in the 1999-00 Supplementary Estimates for PWGSC of $9 million to support the communications priorities of the government (TB 827785). The source of funds was the unity reserve, and the Prime Minister indicated his policy approval by signing the submission. In addition, PCO provided a memorandum to the Secretariat confirming the Prime Minister’s authorization dated December 10, 1999. Additional parliamentary authority for this item was not required because this sum was offset by the release of existing parliamentary spending authorities that had previously been “frozen” in the vote by the Treasury Board.
153. On February 24, 2000, Treasury Board approved the 1999-00 Supplementary Estimates B (TB 827943). As part of these Supplementary Estimates, Treasury Board approved an item for the Department of Finance of $1 million to cover the costs of the advertising campaign for the 2000 Budget. The source of funds was the unity reserve. PCO provided a memorandum to TBS dated February 28, 2000 confirming the Prime Minister’s authorization. Additional parliamentary authority for this item was not required because this sum was offset by the release of existing parliamentary spending authorities that had previously been “frozen” in the vote by the Treasury Board.
154. On March 30, 2000, Treasury Board approved a request from PWGSC to implement the Citizen Information Initiative and the Fairs and Exhibits Initiative (TB 828026). The total cost of the two initiatives was $72 million over three years (2000-01 to 2002-03). A portion of the funds approved for the Citizen Information Initiative was to purchase advertising in order to outline the government’s agenda and priorities and publicise government programs and services. The source of funds for the two initiatives was the fiscal framework pursuant to Budget 2000. The amounts were included in the 2000-01, 2001-02 and 2002-03 Main Estimates approved by Parliament.
155. In March 2000, PWGSC, as part of its internal monitoring program, launched an internal audit of sponsorship activities. This audit revealed inadequate administrative controls for sponsorship activities, and the Secretariat worked with PWGSC in developing a management action plan to respond to the results of this audit. The Secretariat worked with PWGSC throughout the 2000-01 period on the implementation of the management action plan.
156. On January 9, 2001, Treasury Board approved a request from PWGSC to include an item of $400,000 in the 2000-01 Supplementary Estimates to offset costs associated with the advertising campaign for Bill C-20, the Clarity Act (TB 828401). The source of funds was the unity reserve. PCO provided a memorandum to TBS dated March 6, 2000 confirming the Prime Minister’s authorization. Additional parliamentary authority for this item was not required because the sum was offset by the release of existing parliamentary spending authorities that had previously been “frozen” in the vote by the Treasury Board.
157. On February 8, 2001, Treasury Board approved a request from Health Canada to include an item of $2.1 million in the 2000-01 Supplementary Estimates to cover the costs of federal advertisements on health care in Ontario (TB 828741). The source of funds was the unity reserve. PCO provided a memorandum to TBS dated August 12, 2000 confirming the Prime Minister’s authorization. Additional parliamentary authority for this item was not required because the sum was offset by the release of existing parliamentary spending authorities that had previously been “frozen” in the vote by the Treasury Board.
158. At the same February 8, 2001 meeting, Treasury Board approved the 2001-02 ARLU (TB 828762). As part of this ARLU submission, Treasury Board approved an increase to PWGSC reference levels in 2001-02 and ongoing of $40 million for sponsorship-related activities. The source of funds was the fiscal framework pursuant to Budget 2000. These amounts were included Main Estimates approved by Parliament.
159. On September 1, 2001, Communication Canada was created. On December 6, 2001, Treasury Board approved the transfer of funds from PWGSC to Communication Canada in the amount of $75.7 million and additional amounts required for the transition and other costs associated with the transfer of responsibilities (TB 829378). Other items required for the operations of Communication Canada were also approved, including a vote netting authority so that the costs of providing services could be recovered. Communication Canada was provided with a new, discrete vote for the new sponsorship program, which increased the transparency of the use of funds. The Treasury Board also approved amendments to the Common Services Policy to reflect the role of Communication Canada as a common service provider.
160. The Treasury Board introduced a Policy on the Internal Disclosure of Information Concerning Wrongdoing in the Workplace and established the Office of the Public Service Integrity Officer, currently headed by Dr. Keyserlingk, effective November 30, 2001.
161. On February 21, 2002, Treasury Board approved the 2001-02 Supplementary Estimates (B) (TB 829617). As part of this submission, Treasury Board approved the inclusion of an item for Communication Canada of $3.5 million for sponsorship activities. The source of funds was the unity reserve. The Prime Minister’s policy approval was indicated in two memoranda from PCO to TBS dated January 31 and February 12, 2002. These funds were approved by Parliament through the 2001-02 Supplementary Estimates (B). ..
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/gr-rg/gomery/cisp-cepc1_e.asp
Chuck Guite is a red herring.
The 1997 and 2000 elections were fraudulent and should have an asterisk aside their mention in Canadian history.
I hope and pray that Mr Guite is found innocent. That way the real crooks within the ranks of the Liberal party will finally find justice.
Je me souviens!
so how much money got siphoned into Cretin’s riding so he could prevail in a tight race ?? Only Cretin knows if the money bought him an election, but he couldn’t buy a reputation by signing onto Kyoto and his Adscam will pervent him from lying his way to a legacy reputation.
He deserves all he gets . . . . another fine Liberal representative.
For The Record: David Kilgour spoke out, as follows:
More for the Liberal apologists to chew on
This time it’s from Kilgour:
“The phrase is ‘abuse of office,’ ” he said. “I just got back from Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Canadian prosecutors are working on abuse-of-office cases. It’s a criminal offence there, but not here.
“I was a prosecutor for 10 years, and I can tell you – when someone breaks the law, you get the police after them and you prosecute.
“You don’t call some inquiry with a judge who can’t make binding recommendations and let it turn into a three-ring circus.”
Kilgour wouldn’t say who he thought should have been hauled off in handcuffs – “because we’d both be sued for libel.” But he did suggest that Martin’s reaction to Adscam sacrificed the interests of justice in order to deliver political scalps to a revenge-hungry public.
“No one is going to be punished for abuse of office, not in a thousand years,” he said. “It’ll all be swept under the rug.”
# posted @ 11/25/2005 09:16:00 AM
http://talkcanada.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_talkcanada_archive.html
“I wasn’t interested in having a hunting accident in my living room”…
Hmm…I’ve often wondered if things got done or didn’t get done in the Liberal sphere of influence by threats of broken knee caps or worse…
This thing is horrendous and though I’ve been watching CTV, CBC, and Global news for days, there been barely a word about Adscam and this trial.
I hate to think that only us in the blogosphere know what’s really going on…
Who needs the Sopranos when we have the Liberals. Good for Guite and Lambert–am happy they are not taking the fall for their political masters. Will we get to see the godfathers, i.e. Chretien and Martin, give testimony? That should be a cliffhanger. Or for the good of the Party will they have a hunting accident? Or will Irwin Cotler be hired to ‘defend the indefensible’–after all, he can say with a straight face that no money was hidden in the Gun Registry–(reported on AGWN tonight)
new kid,I generally agree,am in awe of MSM’s blatant bias but you can be sure Quebecers are getting the full story.
The Liberals’ woes will not be ending any time soon.
We all know that members of the MSM check in on SDA. Where is the jounalistic courage and integrity that ought to go hand in hand with a free press. Is the editorial hammer so heavy that a journalist cannot investigate and report on these matters. I haven’t heard so much as a single headline to do with this trial, (not that I spend much time watching or reading the MSM anymore, but usually catch some news at 10p.m.) Is it not newsworthy when a former civil servant is fearing for his life lest he speak out against corruption in the highest realms of government? We have heard about the shady links to the Mafia through the Gag man, Gagliano. Were these in actual fact enforcers for the Libel Party of Canada? I say bring every last one of the last Liberal governments cabinet ministers in and question them in separate rooms. They will start squealing on each other so quick to save their own hides that it would be well worth the price of admission.
I noticed on the news tonight that Mr Martin didn’t even have the courtesy to show up for the vote and make his voice count for his constituents on the Afghanistan mission this evening. All that hot air during the election campaign about his passion for Canada… no wonder we have global warming. The man was all bluster and no substance, I am glad he is gone!
Daniel
Daniel
My apologies folks. I had understood that Mr Lambert was a former civil servant, rereading the article, I notice that he was a vice president for Group-Action…although at the time it seems that they were about one and the same. Sorry about the mistake.
Daniel
A few nights ago the lead story on The National was that an immigrant woman had health problems which forced her to stop working before she had met her two-year requirement. This was the top story.
It’s a sad story, there’s no doubt, but why are such stories as Guite’s grial, for example, which pertain to the previous Liberal government, being so pointedly omitted or buried?
Does anyone have any idea why the National is not giving appropriate coverage to this nationally relevent trial testimony? Has they completely given up the ghost on being non-partisan? Do they think Canadians don’t noticed?
You can be sure that if similar testimony pertained to Harper’s government, or to some Conservative backbencher, it would be a big story, like Stockwell Day’s wetsuit was.
What is it with Canadians that we still tolerate billions of our tax dollars going to a PR network for Liberals in exile? I don’t get it.
CBCpravda will suppress any story that doesnt fit their agenda.
propoganda by ommission.
promoting a now defunct liberal/socialist agenda their raison d’etre.
sell them to fox, free the west
If you want someone to do something, you need to find a way to motivate them. In my opinion, about the only way to get a politician to do anything is to corner them and embarrass or humiliate them. Complaining is ineffective…complaints can be waived off, arguments can be deflected with smoke and mirrors, attention can be diverted by changing the subject.
The media’s tactic with the government is to try to embarrass them publicly with their news broadcasts and influence their behaviour. PMSH is apparently trying to influence the media by his “showdown” with them…so how do WE, the public, influence the media? How do we embarrass the media? Blogs are a start, but are only reaching the motivated web-literates in the crowd.
Championing an alternate news source / broadcast that serves up spin-free news could help, but that takes time and money (’cause you gotta advertise or somehow push the source to the public). Strategically placed and worded billboards? Ideas anyone?
Below are two e-mails I have just sent to the CBC Ombudsman. Seeing that he’s only a bagman for the CBC, I’m not very hopeful that I’ll hear from him. He told me by phone about a month and a half ago that he was winding up his conclusions about Julie Van Dusen’s poor choice of words back in January, but I haven’t heard a thing. I suspect that he’s seen his response to my queries about the Heil Harper incident at SDA and cbc watch, and probably has blacklisted me. Did I hear someone say “gulag”?
Dear Mr. Carlin,
Further to our telephone conversation a few weeks ago, I am hopeful that I’ll soon be hearing from you about Julie Van Dusen’s poor choice of words many months ago, when she opined that David Emerson should have got his “tush” over to a media scrum that she was part of.
I am attaching to and embedding in this e-mail another e-mail which I have just sent to cbc.ca, questions for The National–and all CBC news outlets, actually–who have done a stellar job of not reporting extensively on the Guite/Lambert trials. What they’ve been revealing is definitely headline material, but for some reason, the CBC is not treating it as such.
Lambert, essentially, says that he feared for his life if he were to blow the whistle on the shady, some would say totally criminal, transactions of GroupAction and the Liberal Government when Adscam was in full “bloom.”
I would like to hear the CBC’s justification for treating this trial as though it were either old news or not particularly relevant to Canadians.
***
e-mail (below) sent to cbc.ca (contact us) with a few questions, May 18, 2006:
Adscam OLD news? Seems to be your reasoning, otherwise why no headlines about Guité and Lambert’s testimony?
Here’s what Lambert, a former vice-president of Groupaction, told Charles Guité’s fraud trial Wednesday:
“…he feared for his life if he were to blow the whistle on what he saw as suspicious goings on between his ad agency and former prime minister Jean Chretien’s office. ‘I wasn’t interested in having a hunting accident in my living room,’ he testified.
“Lambert, who quit Groupaction in 2001, said he felt like he was trapped in a system with many tentacles, at the centre of which was Chretien.”
THIS ISN’T NEWS? CBC’s only “justification” for not headlining these developments must be that you are trying to cover up what the Liberals were up to under Chretien and Martin.
Otherwise, why not treat this news the same way you would if, say, it was the Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the CPC under investigation?
Your biases are a mile high and totally transparent. Do you really think that you can continue fooling all of the people all of the time?
Maz2 – you constantly amaze me with the depth of research in your comments!
Maybe sending e-mails re these findings to the various media is not the way to go, maybe we need to cut something like Maz’s comments, or Kate’s posts on an issue and send them to everyone on our e-mails lists. That way, we circumvent the MSM who obviously have no intention of actually reporting NEWS that could cast a bad light on the Liberal party any further.
By sending the information to everyone on our lists, word would get around far faster than any newspaper.
Gotta be better to receive news than ad’s for Penis Enlargement or a letter from the Nigerian Doctor.
Would it work?
CBCpravda and CTVtass dont have time or space for Adscam , they are concentrating on trying to find errors in Harpers government and have to fill the space with complaints until the Libs get their leadership convention going.
never a mention of Uberhomo Bill Grahams past.
Will the MSM mention that AdScam-Gun Registry Chretien’s ex-Finance Minister name of Paul Martin. Jr.,
did not even show his mug in the House of Commons
to vote yea or nay on the Afghan mission vote?
AdScam-Gun Registry Martin was sworn in as Canada’s Prime Minister holding the Canadian flag which was flown when his father died….. flown at half-mast on the pole atop the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill:
Paul Martin sworn in as prime minister Carrying the flag flown when his father died, Paul Martin Jr. fulfills the family dream of becoming prime minister. …
archives.cbc.ca/IDCC-1-73-2148-13124/politics_economy/paul_martin/ – 52k
Alberta Girl – Sending info that the MSM ignores to all our email lists is a nice idea. However, I’ve found, even including good friends, whom I thought were solidly conservative, that receiving bad. e.g., controversial, news isn’t always their cup of tea. It’s actually quite astonishing: The head in the sand attitude’s very much alive and well in Canada. I think a lot of people feel guilty when they believe certain information might require some commitment on their part, even if it’s only facing up to an uncomfortable truth.
For example, a friend of mine who’s far from anti-American or politically correct, has refused to admit that the West is under mortal threat from fanatical Islam: When I suggested that if the West doesn’t take the threat seriously and fight back mightily, his wife and daughter will most likely be wearing burquas one of these days, it was shoot the messenger time. My friend was angry with me for challenging him with the truth. Since then, I’ve nearly sent him all kinds of Internet articles with valuable information, but I think our friendship, unhappily compromised as it now is, is more important.
I’ve found that most people, and Canadians, for sure, seem to only want to know so much. “Not too many uncomfortable facts, please. We’re Canadian and would rather sit on the fence.” I know this is a strong indictment, but I’ve found it to be true more often than I care to think.
So, in a nutshell: If you value your friendships, family relationships, and other contacts, be very selective when deciding to whom you’ll send the “real story”. Cheers!
How about getting rid of the CBC and replacing it with FoxNews Canada, where the truth can be told!
PZabudsky – I wish!
Would that “hunting accident” involve a registered or unregistered weapon? Would a Librano hit be politically correct?
I find Preston Mannings comments interesting. In declining to run for his fathers old position as Premier of Alberta, he said “I can do more for the Conservative movement through the Conservative think tank that I have started…I can train many Conservative thinking people who will then be ready to run for public office,” (paraphrase mine)
Preston feels that this is important and vital to the Conservative movement in Canada. He is dead on. In the past, we have had many very passionate conservative candidates who were basically “western rednecks who hated Liberals” (and who could blame them). If the Conservative movement can begin to field candidates across Canada who are not only passionate but also can articulate the conservative message knowledgably in words bigger than four letters with at least two syllables, then we can have hope for the party long into the future.
I do think that we need to encourage someone with fairly deep pockets that there is an appetite and a need for FOX North.
Daniel
lookout:
I concur with your views. It is just that most Canadians have no idea what these people are like. I guess we need to learn the hard way. Check this link out though: http://www.faithfreedom.org/gallery.htm
OFF TOPIC HERE MY APOLOGIES: anyone watch the vote last nite(Aphgan Ext.) split vote by the liberals Graham voted in favor, Iggy in favor, Dyden, Volpe, Dion, against. Where were the rest of the leadership hopefulls? Former defence McCallum Against And Where The Heck Was PAUL MARTIN?? He is the one that started this Mission and he could not even show up!!, pretty disgracefull.
Then on CTV Newsnet Ret.Gen.Mackenzie hit the nail on the head talking about Wacky Jacky & Darfur If he thinks that will be a Peace Mission he is badly mistaken. Very interesting comments from Mackenzie also on Aphgan. Refering to the troops over there they are not watching CPAC they watching the Hockey Game, then the hoot owl Oliver refering to missing members & laytons idiot comments commenting also that it was a disgrace & who was making it nothing more then a political ploy LIB’s BLOQ & NDP but lets put the blame on the PM.
thanks have a great day everyone
While PM, Chretien got away with a blatant and very public assault of a protester in Vancouver. After decades of Liberal propoganda, brainwashing and deception, it is going to take time to remove the scales from the eyes of the media and public as to just how criminal he and his cabal were. It may be wishful thinking, but I will personally throw a major blowout when the filth known as Chretien is exposed, convicted and sentenced to prison.
I just hope the scum lives long enough to see that day.
Name: Edmonton-Manning MLA Dan Backs
Liberal MLA apologizes for comparing Tories to Nazis
A Liberal MLA has apologized in the Alberta legislature for comparing the Tory government to Nazi and fascist regimes.
…….
Ad man: [Liberal]Chretien’s offfice heavily involved in sponsorship scandal
A former ad executive lived with a twisted trail of fake projects and phoney contracts because “great Canadian institutions” like the [Liberal] Prime Minister’s Office of Jean Chretien were involved, Chuck Guite’s fraud trial heard Wednesday. …
nealenews.com
You’ve got to remember, with the proven association of the Bonanno crime family nobody can rat out anybody. Mutually assured destruction. It’s a death sentence.
I think it’s interesting that apparently none of the open questions that arose in respect to the mob and the Liberal Party has ever been pursued or explained.
As far as I can tell all the goombahs at Frank’s (and other places in Canada I could mention) are still enjoying chianti with their fettucini, relieved enough to be plying their trade outside of the spotlight. After all, with Alphonso and even Rizzuto out of the limelight, the heat is off.
I doubt the public will ever really know the extent of organized crime’s relationship to the capers and the ties with the Liberal government.
Look at the Kennedy assassination. Despite the known involvement of Santos Tropicante and Carlos Marcello, despite the CIA’s complicity with Sam Giancono and Johnny Rosselli, still no official recognition of a mob involvement has ever been officially disclosed.
At least these days down here, the mafia is being given a bad time. The old bosses of New York’s fine families all taken down. (Remember, there are 25 mafia familes in the US.) The FBI is making life very hard for them.
Canada is still giving them a free ride… wonder why?
Sure sure the old liberals where threatening death for untold millions in illigal contracts for their cronies so they could kick it back and make them all rich.
But Harper looks fat in a vest!
This must be sung from the roof tops of our miserable MSM idiots illicit bought and paid for pox filled houses.
Posted this on another site but after reading above comments thought it might add something here, thanks Kate.
For the past number of years I have despaired at the direction that this once great country was taking in world affairs. The MSM, press, radio, and television have learned well at the footstool of Dr. Goebbels, “Tell something often enough and it becomes the truth”. Ionno is one of the many examples of this process, we have been running this country into oblivion by the leadership of the liberals for the better part of 50 years. We have two generations that have grown up under the banner of the ‘Red’ Maple Leaf flag. We have begun to see the collapse of institutions that all Canadians once held dear, Health care, Education, National police force, and a strong Military. After decades of corruption, theft, negligence etc. etc. we have finally found a leader that still retains some of the virtues that helped create this country. I am thankful that we have this venue and others on the internet that hasn’t been corrupted. From the comments above I can now say that there is hope, I am not alone in my line of thinking. Fortunately the Halifaxes, and Chamberlains of today, (Layton and Duceppe) cannot control this media. The climate of politican unrest in Iraq and Afghanistan today so closely resembles the Germany of the twenties that it is unthinkable that leaders of the opposition parties could counsel a withdrawl of troops. Under Harper’s leadership and through the internet we can all make a difference. I urge all of you reading this to keep up the dialogue and the intelligent discussion until the majority of Canadians learn that they have been led down the garden path by Liberals and NDP alike. There are issues that we all hold dear, truth and freedom. Despite the lies and restrictions that have been foisted upon us in the last few decades these principals are once again coming to the surface, they will always come to the surface for without them, what are we doing here?
Hassle,I feel your pain.I too am stunned the MSM is so brash in it’s bias,what the hell has happened to our fair and open democracy?
To your point of taking action.The surefire way to get anybody’s undivided attention is mess with their income.It must be done en masse,but putting heat on those who advertise with these liars and manipulators will get some reaction,hopefully enough to cause change.
As per the sickly CBC,who apparently answer to no one(not even CRTC)but themselves,we must put pressure on the Conservatives to take action as they are the only ones in Ottawa of a similar mind.
Folks,we seem to be smack dab in the middle of a propaganda war.Harper didn’t start it,but he is showing the will to see it through,we must also be steadfast if we truly believe what we type.
I say e-mail,fax,write,call anyone neccessary to expose this traitorous agenda of manipulating the population.
Guite trial: 1.1 million for event list
MONTREAL (CP) – A Quebec advertising firm billed the federal government $1.1 million for having a clerical worker create a list of small town festivals and other events across Quebec and Canada, Chuck Guite’s fraud trial heard Thursday.
Diane Ripeau was making $35,000 a year doing office work for Groupaction Inc. while she chipped away at her project to catalogue scores of events in Quebec with sponsorship opportunities during 18 months in the late 1990s.
Later, she expanded her search of Internet sites and tourist brochures to include the rest of Canada.
Ripeau wrote a few comments in the margins on how she viewed the events.
“They asked me to analyse the possibilities for sponsorships,” Ripeau testified. “I didn’t know what it was for.” … cnews
Paul “I Knew Nothing” Martin was Vice(sic)-Chair of Treasury Board from the get-go until May, 2002:
May 26, 2002 –
June 1, 2002
Chair:
The Hon. Lucienne Robillard
Vice-Chair:
The Hon. Paul Martin
….
Gagliano appears in June, 1997.
……..
Excerpt:
Treasury Board Members
January 25, 1996 to present
January 25, 1996 –
October 3, 1996
Chair:
The Hon. Marcel Massé
Vice-Chair:
The Hon. Paul Martin
Members:
The Hon. Sergio Marchi
The Hon. Diane Marleau
The Hon. Douglas Young
The Hon. Anne McLellan
Alternates:
The Hon. David Collenette
The Hon. Jane Stewart
October 4, 1996 –
June 10, 1997
Chair:
The Hon. Marcel Massé
Vice-Chair:
The Hon. Paul Martin
Members:
The Hon. Sergio Marchi
The Hon. Diane Marleau
The Hon. Douglas Young
The Hon. Anne McLellan
Alternates:
The Hon. Jane Stewart
The Hon. Pierre Pettigrew
June 11, 1997 –
November 22, 1998
Chair:
The Hon. Marcel Massé
Vice-Chair:
The Hon. Paul Martin
Members:
The Hon. Arthur Eggleton
The Hon. Anne McLellan
The Hon. Alfonso Gagliano
The Hon. Fred Mifflin
Alternates:
The Hon. Ralph Goodale
The Hon. Lucienne Robillard
The Hon. Don Boudria
The Hon. Andy Scott …
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/gr-rg/gomery/cisp-cepc2_e.asp
“A poof is a poof, and when you have good poof it is poofen.”
Duh? Anybody out there got any beer- I’m all out.
Bwahahahaha!
Key words: “a draw on the unity reserve.”
The “unity reserve” was the cash pool of tens of millions of your monies, taxpayers of Canada.
The unity reserve was doled out/distributed by Chretien/Martin et al, to Liberals, ad agencies, and others to “fight the separatists”. …
Guite trial- taxpayers’ money
Manna from heaven- via taxpayers
“The trial also heard yesterday from witnesses — including the caretaker of Mr. Brault’s luxury cars — who testified Groupaction submitted bogus time sheets to the federal govermnment for work meant to be done under the sponsorship program.
Francois Desjardins was listed on Groupaction time sheets as a “co-ordinator” who worked 313 hours at $50 an hour on a contract to increase the federal government’s profile in Quebec after the narrow victory over the sovereignist side in the 1995 referendum.
But Mr. Desjardins, whose responsibilities included looking after Mr. Brault’s fleet of cars, said he did absolutely no work on the project. Yet, he said, he was called into Mr. Brault’s secretary’s office one day and told to fill out time sheets for the fictitious work.
The Groupaction time sheets also list a J. Archambault, who is alleged to have worked 477.5 hours at $125 per hour.
But Jacques Archambault, a former Groupaction employee, testified in Quebec Superior Court that he didn’t work on any sponsorship contracts. He said a woman named Joanne Archambault was employed by Groupaction at the time; she was responsible for decorating the company’s three buildings and organizing internal parties….
Lucie Dumas, another former employee, is listed as working 120 hours at $150 an hour, even though she never worked on the project. Asked by Mr. Guite if someone asked her to fill out the sheets, she replied: “Mr. Brault asked me to fill them out four times. I did the first two, but after that, I refused.”
The time sheets amount to a total of $491,150 in pay.” newsbeat1.com
Excerpt:
Document Prepared by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat for the Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities.
Does the TB contact the PCO on behalf of the dept and ask whether this might be an appropriate project for the Unity Fund?
Normal practice is for PCO to advise TBS of a draw on the unity reserve. In the absence of a decision on a source of funds, it is more likely that TBS would refer a department to contact the PCO; TBS would then alert PCO to the referral.
Does Chrétien’s signature on the TB submission indicate that Diane Marleau knew about the Unity Fund? (page 11)
TBS is unable to answer this question. …
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/gr-rg/gomery/cisp-cepc2_e.asp
Obviously either Lambert or Chretien is lying in court. I thought we still had laws against perjury? I know that any citizen of Canada can make a citizen’s arrest or swear out a complaint?Anyone up to it.
O.k. I’ll do it.Is there anyone out there that can tell me how to go about it? Any honest lawyers that are fed up? Any lawyers that are fed up? E-mail me.
“sing sing… like a canary”
I am disturbed by the lack of information regarding which politicial party these characters belonged to.
“O.k. I’ll do it.Is there anyone out there that can tell me how to go about it?” …. wallyj.
Suggestion: Clayton Ruby? Legal-Aid… see the yellow pages? (sarcasm off).
The Government of Canada must be reading these comments.
Where is the Minister of Justice? Where is the RCMP? Where is Jack Layton?
Why have not Chretien/Martin been subpoenaed
as witnesses and compelled to testify at Guite’s trial?
Where is the RCMP/Federal Prosecutor’s investigation of the AdScam Chretien/Martin and Librano$ theft/crimes, corruption, abuse of power, breach of trust, and etc.?
WallyJ said: “O.k. I’ll do it.Is there anyone out there that can tell me how to go about it? Any honest lawyers that are fed up? Any lawyers that are fed up?”
Your first challenge is to find an honest lawyer.
The next challenge is to find one that is not busy settling land claims, residential school abuses or preparing Liberal defense briefs and stalling motions as the auditors get closer and closer to the truth. Go Sheila Fraser
Daniel
Good luck
Is Justice Minister Toews watching/listening/reading blogs, & etc.?
Where are you, Minister Toews? Guite is spilling the beans, blowing the whistle, & other cliches: Testifying? Others are testifying.
Are not Chretien/Martin culpable? “Deserving of blame or censure as being wrong, evil, improper, or injurious.” Dictionary.com
The Canadian people demand an independent criminal inquiry with a named prosecutor to investigate the
Chretien/Martin government’s activities in this massive fraud. …
Guite spends week bringing PMO into fraud trial
by Romeo St. Martin
[PoliticsWatch posted 5:15 p.m. May 19, 2006
Excerpt:
On Monday, Guite dropped his own bombshell and produced an April 1995 letter from Pelletier to Guite’s boss at the time, the public works minister David Dingwall.
Guite planted the suggestion that the PMO was involved in overseeing advertising rules.
“After 17 months in government, I believe it is an opportune time to again draw attention to the Treasury Board policy on contracting for polling and advertising,” Pelletier wrote.
Pelletier said PMO director of operations Jean Carle would be “the individual responsible for ensuring that the policy has been respected.”
Guite producing that letter during his trial fits into the underlying theme of his defence that his political masters were aware of what he was doing.
But even more interesting is it reveals that Guite may have covered his tracks and has kept documents more than a decade old.
Carle’s name also came up in testimony on Thursday, when a public servant from the public works department testified about a phone call she received from him in the mid 1990s.
Marthe Schryburt, the former head of public opinion research in the Public Works Department, told the court that public works issued a $120,000 contract to Quebec pollster Marcel Ginner for work he had already done.
Schryburt testified the contract was issued after she received an angry call from Carle.
“I received a call from Jean Carle at PMO, who seemed to be upset because Mr. Giner had not received work,” she testified.
Perhaps the most interesting testimony this week came from a Groupaction executive that Guite cross examined.
Jean Lambert testified that he became increasingly suspicious about the lucrative federal contract his firm was receiving and the close ties it had spawned with the Liberal party.
Lambert’s former boss, Jean Brault, was recently given a 30-month jail sentence after pleading guilty to five counts of fraud.
Lambert said he kept quiet about what he believed was high level involvement because he feared for his life.
“If I was right, considering the big players and the big shoe sizes involved, and I knew fully well I was just a speck of dust in there, let’s just say that the thought of having a hunting accident in my living room didn’t appeal to me,” Lambert told the courtroom.
Lambert said what he saw over the years was “a network with tentacles, and at the heart of it there was the PMO.”
He said he suspected there was “something going on” based on the “closeness” of Groupaction and other ad agencies with the Liberal party, MPs and cabinet ministers.
Lambert concluded his suspicions were corrected because if “it looks like a dog, it smells like a dog, it barks like a dog, it must be a dog.”
Up until this week, Guite had been the only person at his trial suggesting PMO involvement in how his department handed out contracts.
This week Guite may have bolstered his case with documents and testimony from two prosecution witnesses.
Guite has not launched his own defence yet, but another week of revelations could turn Guite’s trial into, as Gomery would say, the best show in town. …
http://www.politicswatch.com/guite-may19-2006.htm