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	Politics of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canadian politicians were unable to obtain consensus on a process for amending the constitution until 1982.
		But, constitutionally, any adult Canadian is eligible for the jobs, and prime ministers have held office after being elected leader but before taking a seat in the Commons (John Turner, for example), or after being defeated in their constituencies.
		Because the Canadian Conservative party was new, estimates were attempted based on the votes for the old Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance party as the Conservative Party of Canada was a merger of the two parties.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Government_of_Canada (5437 words)

	Canadian federal election, 2004 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		A Canadian federal election (more formally, the 38th general election) was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
		Until the sponsorship scandal, most pundits were predicting that new Prime Minister Paul Martin would lead the Liberals to a fourth majority government, possibly setting a record for number of seats won.
		Sponsorship scandal: badly hurt the Liberals in the polls and the theme of widespread corruption was used by all opposition parties, especially the Bloc.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/2004_Canadian_election (2499 words)

	List of Canadian political scandals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal - Liberal Party of Canada - misuse and misdirection of funds of the Liberal government's 1990s AdScam.
		Political bribing and taping scandal involving PMO chief of staff Tim Murphy, Heath Minister Ujjal Dosanjh and MP Gurmant Grewal.
		Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan scandals - Scandals that emerged in the 1990s involving Grant Devine's Progressive Conservative government implicating 16 MLAs, with the chief conviction that of Deputy Premier Eric Berntson in 1999.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_political_scandals (508 words)

	2004 - Simple English Wikipedia
		2004 is a year in the 21st century.
		The chief justice of the Haitian Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, is sworn in as interim president.
		May 10 - Canadian Sponsorship Scandal - The RCMP arrest Chuck Guite and Jean Brault in connection with the scandal.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004 (2374 words)

	Sheila Fraser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		She made headlines across Canada when her report on the sponsorship scandal rocked the country's political scene.
		In a few very troubling cases, sponsorship funds were transferred to Crown corporations using what the Auditor General called "highly questionable methods." That is, they appeared to have been designed to pay significant commissions to communications agencies, while hiding the source of funding and the true nature of the transactions.
		Canada's admiration for her was shown when she was named the 66th Greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC poll.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sheila_Fraser (281 words)

	Sponsorship_scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The sponsorship scandal or "AdScam" is an ongoing scandal that may lead to the collapse of the current government of Canada.
		The scandal involved the misuse and misdirection of funds that were intended to go to government advertising in Quebec over the preceding decade.
		The sponsorship program was originally conceived in 1996 and was a response to a referendum in 1995 in which Quebecers narrowly defeated a proposal to separate from Canada.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Sponsorship_scandal (2307 words)

	Groupaction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Groupaction Inc. is the Canadian advertising agency at the centre of the 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal.
		It was incorporated in 1983 as Groupaction Marketing Inc. and received its first federal advertising contract in 1994 with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
		Jean Brault, president of Groupaction, was arrested by the RCMP on May 10, 2004 along with Charles Guité and charged with fraud in connection with the sponsorship scandal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Groupaction (104 words)

	The Militant - June 14, 2004 -- Canadian gov’t calls early elections
		The Canadian rulers put the Martin government in office in an attempt to reverse or slow down the impact of the punishment they got from their much more powerful imperialist ally to the south.
		As the economic crisis has intensified, the Canadian rulers have pushed harder to cut wages and living standards of working people to shore up their declining profit rates—creating discontent across the board.
		Far from consolidating a strong government, which was the framework of the Canadian ruling class when it pushed Martin to the post of prime minister, all signs indicate that, whatever the final results, the upcoming June elections will open up a period of greater political instability in Canada.
	www.themilitant.com /2004/6823/682310.html (1520 words)

	Winnipeg Sun Columnist: Tom Brodbeck - Sponsorship inquiry is a necessary evil
		What Canadians are going to find out -- hopefully -- when Justice John Gomery issues his final report on the sponsorship scandal that's rocked Parliament, is how easy it is for politicians and bureaucrats to break their own rules.
		The meat of the sponsorship scandal was that politicians and bureaucrats flagrantly violated the rules that govern Parliament's spending powers.
		Canadians have a right to know how politicians and bureaucrats can so easily take their money and spend it on anything they please without any kind of checks and balances.
	www.canoe.ca /NewsStand/Columnists/Winnipeg/Tom_Brodbeck/2004/09/12/pf-625671.html (646 words)

	Canadian Elections: The Bloc Québécois a political instrument of the québécois elite
		The fraudulent character of the 2004 Canadian elections—in which the establishment parties accuse one another of having a hidden agenda while each prepares, behind the backs of the population, to intensify the assault of big business on the social conditions of workers—has not spared Quebec.
		The sponsorship scandal “broke” within weeks of a series of mass and largely spontaneous protests against the Charest Liberal government that threatened to become a general strike.
		Quebec nationalism, like the Canadian nationalism of the social-democratic NDP and trade union bureaucracy in English Canada, has left workers politically disarmed in the face of the demands of the financial markets for reduced wages, poorer working conditions and job cuts.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jun2004/bqca-j25.shtml (1433 words)

	What we've really learned from sponsorship scandal - Public Policy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		That the sponsorship scandal is an important chapter in telling the story of 2004 is above question.
		Thinking back on the sponsorship scandal, we remember the quotation about some public servants "breaking just about every rule in the book." We remember the 'Mad as Hell' tour and the hyperbolic questions and innuendo thrown at the government benches to dubious effect by opposition MPs.
		The real questions that are raised by the sponsorship scandal and the real keys to reversing the trend in public cynicism and solving the democratic deficit have to do with governments finding the right tools and approaches to deal with the new realities of public sector management.
	www.ppforum.com /ow/OPED_sponsorship_scandal.htm (812 words)

	Worldandnation: Spring elections still on track
		A spring federal election is still being considered by the Canadian government despite the damaging sponsorship scandal that has rocked the Liberals.
		Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien's visit to a Chinese restaurant at the height of the first wave of the outbreak was derided as an insincere "photo op," and his decision to move a weekly Cabinet meeting to Toronto in late April was deemed insignificant.
		Canadian stock markets are mixed, with Toronto's composite index higher at 8,784 points and the Canadian Venture Exchange lower at 1,879 points.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/02/29/Worldandnation/Spring_elections_stil.shtml (623 words)

	2004 Canadian federal elections - Canada is entering a new period of turmoil
		Rather, the drop in support that followed the sponsorship scandal is an expression of a discontent with the ruling government that had long been festering.
		While the polls leading up to the scandal may have said that 60 percent of the population supported the government, what they did not say was that the resolution with which that 60 percent supported the government had been dwindling for some time.
		The sponsorship scandal was merely the event that finally pushed people from increasingly reluctant support for the government to actual opposition.
	www.marxist.com /canada/canada_fed_elections04.html (2229 words)

	Canadian federal election, 2004 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A Canadian federal election (more formally, the 38th general election) was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the (Click link for more info and facts about Canadian House of Commons) Canadian House of Commons.
		On May 23, 2004, (A governor of high rank) Governor General (Click link for more info and facts about Adrienne Clarkson) Adrienne Clarkson, on the advice of Martin, ordered the dissolution of the House of Commons.
		However, polls released immediately after the scandal broke showed Liberal support down as much as 10% nationwide, with greater declines in its heartland of (The largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British) Quebec and (A prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada) Ontario.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Ca/Canadian_federal_election,_2004.htm (3802 words)

	2004 in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		March 9: 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal investigation finds $2.3 million missing which was to be used to fund the Bluenose 2.
		March 24: Myriam Bédard testifies to a committee investigating the sponsorship scandal that she heard Jacques Villeneuve was paid millions of dollars to wear a Canadian flag on his racing suit; Villeneuve calls this allegation "ludicrous".
		May 10: 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal - Jean Brault, president of Groupaction, and Charles Guité arrested by the RCMP for fraud.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/2/2004-in-Canada.htm (5453 words)

	Sponsorship-Scandal, 2nd Writethru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		OTTAWA (CP) - Alfonso Gagliano met with the top managers of the sponsorship program on a weekly basis and staff were told to blindly execute his orders, a former key bureaucrat in the program said Thursday.
		She said she was in charge of rubber-stamping bills from sponsorship contracts and told never to ask questions about them.
		Tremblay said she couldn't recall who in former prime minister Jean Chretien's office called with requests about the sponsorship program but said it was a woman in the office of his chief of staff, Jean Pelletier.
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/National/040325/n0325136A.html (686 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Federal sponsorship scandal
		He vigorously defended the federal sponsorship as an important part of the battle against Quebec sovereigntists in the wake of the 1995 referendum.
		The scandal has been the talk of Ottawa since 2002, when federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser recommended the RCMP investigate how $1.6 million in federal government advertising contracts were handed out to a Montreal ad agency.
		There had been rumours that a government advertising and sponsorship program set up to promote unity in the wake of the 1995 referendum in Quebec was little more than a vehicle to reward loyal Liberal supporters.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/groupaction (740 words)

	February 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		2004 in film: The 2004 Golden Raspberries are handed out in commemoration of the low points struck last year by the motion picture industry.
		ROC presidential election, 2004: Candidates Lien Chan of the Pan-Blue Coalition and President Chen Shui-bian of the Pan-Green Coalition participate in a televised debate.
		Canada's auditor-general, Sheila Fraser, releases a scathing report on a Canadian dollarCA$250-millon sponsorship fund that had a major portion of its funds directed to firms friendly to the ruling Liberal Party of CanadaLiberal party; the resulting scandal and inquiry is quite likely to affect the coming Canadian federal election, 2004election.
	www.infothis.com /find/February_2004 (9631 words)

	CNEWS - Politics CanadaVotes: PM: No AdScam answers coming soon
		Prime Minister Paul Martin said Canadians are still waiting for answers about the federal sponsorship scandal and may not get them even during the next government mandate.
		Martin staked much of his political capital this spring on getting to the bottom of the scandal, in which government-friendly ad firms pocketed about $100 million in fees and commissions for work the auditor general said was of little or no value.
		Any revival of the sponsorship scandal would appear to be bad news for the governing Liberals.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Politics/CanadaVotes/2004/06/07/pf-489624.html (641 words)

	Paul Martin Time: Sponsorship scandal threatens community arts and culture festivals
		CBC HALIFAX - Fallout from the scandal-plagued federal sponsorship program is spreading across the country as dozens of small arts and culture groups anxiously await news about money promised to them by Sponsorship Canada.
		The prime minister launched a public inquiry into the federal sponsorship program Tuesday, the day Auditor General Sheila Fraser released her report into the scandal.
		Now, with the sponsorship scandal in Quebec dominating the news, these festival and event organizers are feeling punished despite following the rules.
	paulmartintime.ca /mediacoverage/000284.html (475 words)

	Sponsorship scandal proves Bloc Quebecois needed, says Jacques Parizeau
		OTTAWA (CP) -- The federal sponsorship scandal, with its revelations that millions were funnelled to Liberal-friendly Quebec firms, will help the Bloc Quebecois in the next election, ex-premier Jacques Parizeau said Tuesday.
		"The sponsorship scandal will give the Bloc an extraordinary chance in the next election," he said, noting the sovereigntist party asked more than 400 questions about the scandal in the House of Commons.
		Parizeau said such a scandal was unlikely to happen on the provincial level in Quebec, where strict party financing rules have been in place since the 1970s.
	www.canoe.ca /NationalTicker/CANOE-wire.Sponsorship-Scandal-Parizeau.html (454 words)

	2004 Canadian election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A Canadian federal election (more formally, the 38th general election) was held on June 28, 2004.
		On May 23, 2004, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, on the advice of Prime Minister Paul Martin, ordered thedissolution of the House of Commons (the lowerhouse of Parliament).
		Until the sponsorship scandal, most pundits were predicting that new Prime Minister Paul Martin would lead the Liberals to a fourth majority government, possibly setting a record for number of seatswon.
	www.therfcc.org /2004-canadian-election-26291.html (3564 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Canada / Canada Immigration Minister Quits in Pizza Scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Canadian Immigration Minister Judy Sgro, already embroiled in a scandal over favors given to a Romanian stripper, resigned on Friday after a pizza shop owner said she had reneged on a promise to help him avoid deportation in exchange for free pizza.
		OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Immigration Minister Judy Sgro, already embroiled in a scandal over favors given to a Romanian stripper, resigned on Friday after a pizza shop owner said she had reneged on a promise to help him avoid deportation in exchange for free pizza.
		The affair is yet another political embarrassment for Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin, who lost his parliamentary majority in a June 2004 election amid anger over a government sponsorship scandal.
	www.boston.com /news/world/canada/articles/2005/01/14/canada_immigration_minister_quits_in_pizza_scandal?mode=PF (580 words)

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