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Topic: Liberal Party of Canada sponsorship scandal

	Akaash Maharaj - Feature Articles - Martin was Warned (Sponsorship Scandal) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Martin while he was still finance minister, the party's then-national policy chair asked him to "prepare a fact-based reply" to "the growing rumours that funds from the sponsorship programme are being diverted" through advertising firms closely linked to the Liberals.
		In essence, there are persistent and growing rumours that funds from the sponsorship programme are being diverted to partisan purposes connected with the 2000 general election campaign in Quebec, through the agency of advertising and public relations firms associated with the Party.
		I trust you will agree, however, that while it would be absurd for a minister of the Crown or an officer of the Party to act on every rumour that comes his or her way, this one is sui generis, and cries out to be nipped in the bud.
	www.maharaj.org /nat-post5.shtml (1762 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Liberal Party was reduced from a majority to a minority government due, in part, to a Chrétien-era scandal in which advertising agencies supporting the Liberal Party received grossly inflated commissions for their services.
		When the Liberals formed a majority government after the 1993 election with Chrétien at the helm, party unity was assured by placing Martin, whom Chrétien had defeated for the party leadership in 1990, in the crucial role of Minister of Finance.
		In April, 2005 David Kilgour, one of the party's two MPs from Alberta announced that he was leaving the party to sit as an independent member of the House of Commons due to the damaging allegations of corruption in the Liberal Party's Quebec wing based on testimony in the Gomery Commission inquiry.
	wikipedia.com /wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada (3249 words)

	Sponsorship scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sponsorship scandal or "AdScam" is an ongoing scandal that may lead to the collapse of the current government of Canada.
		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.
		The opposition parties and several constitutional experts claim that the motion is binding and that the government must resign; the government and several opposing constitutional experts suggest that this motion was merely procedural and therefore cannot be considered a matter of confidence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada_sponsorship_scandal (2521 words)

	Encyclopedia: Liberal Party of Canada
		Canadas Secretary of State for External Affairs was, from 1909 to 1993, the member of the Cabinet of Canada responsible for overseeing the federal governments international relations and the former Department of External Affairs.
		An interim leader, in Canadian politics, is a party leader who is appointed by the partys legislative caucus or the partys executive to temporarily act as leader when there is a gap between the resignation or death of a party leader and the election of his or her...
		The Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador is a political party in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Liberal_Party_of_Canada (10289 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada
		The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is Canada's largest political party.
		It is one of only two parties that have alternately governed Canada since Confederation, the other being the now-defunct Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and its various preceding incarnations.
		In practice, these parties are conservative in orientation, though they do have prominent supporters of the federal Liberals in their caucuses.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Liberal_Party_of_Canada (2959 words)

	VIA Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By the late 1980s, inflation and other rising costs were taking their toll on federal budgets and in the Mulroney administration's infamous 1989 budget, VIA again saw its budget slashed, surpassing even the 1981 cuts under Trudeau.
		The federal Auditor General's report released publicly on February 10, 2004 showed what appeared to be a criminal misdirection of government funds intended for advertising to key Quebec-based supporters of the Liberal Party of Canada.
		Included in the Auditor General's report was the fact that VIA Rail Canada was used as one of several federal government departments, agencies, and Crown corporations to funnel these illicit funds.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/v/vi/via_rail.html (1813 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada
		There were a few years of party confusion; but gradually a pattern of party alignments emerged and by the time of the second election in 1872, a straight party fight took place between a Conservative government and a Reform or Liberal Opposition.
		Despite these reforms, the Liberal Party under Mackenzie was unable to achieve a solid popular base of support in any province except Ontario, and in 1878, the government was badly defeated in the general election.
		The cooperation of the French-speaking Liberals at the Convention, and the choice of an English-speaking leader demonstrated that the French-speaking Liberals were resolved to restore the Liberal Party on the basis of racial harmony and national unity.
	www.liberal.ca /history_e.aspx (2405 words)

	Vive le Canada - Open Letter To Governing Liberal Party Of Canada
		Be they Liberal or liberal, New Democrats or democrats, Green voters or voters who want a green country, or even Red Tories searching for a home, these bloggers believe that Canadian politics should move in a progressive direction.
		Political parties a vehicles which the crooks use to steal our "government" and by the way Mary,why haven't these well connected ethical lawyers who oversee the party structure, done something to end this corruption, could it be they are the one who are driving the party get a way car.
		Canada is fully able to set itself as a shining star, a beacon for all nations to follow...
	www.vivelecanada.ca /article.php/2005041305030024 (2753 words)

	Election Canada 2004 - Canadian Culture
		Party members started making public statements against such high-profile social issues as homosexuality and abortion rights without any censure from their own leader.
		The Liberal Party, on the other hand, sits closer to the safe middle ground that most Canadians seem to prefer.
		Unfortunately, Paul Martin's Liberals are hampered by the recent sponsorship scandal.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art21079.asp (387 words)

	Mayan Majix - Articles - Canada's Liberal Party Riven by Rising Kickback Scandal
		TORONTO, Feb. 14 — A growing scandal involving the use of $75 million of public funds to enrich allies of the governing Liberal Party is threatening to overwhelm the new government of Prime Minister Paul Martin and to split the party as it prepares for national elections.
		Martin's effort to distance himself from the scandal has drawn snickering from both the Socialist and Conservative opposition and disbelief from voters surveyed by pollsters.
		The same firms named in the report gave the Liberal Party large financial donations in recent years, giving rise to allegations by the opposition that the scheme was a money laundering effort to kick back money to the governing party.
	www.mayanmajix.com /art604.html (736 words)

	ESR \| February 16, 2004 \| Can Canada's teflon Liberal Party strike back?
		The estimate is that $100 million of federal funds, which was part of a larger $250 million sponsorship program meant to raise the governments profile in Quebec after the 1995 referendum, went to Liberal friendly and Quebec based communications companies.
		Translation: The Liberal Death Star is blown up for real this, the Empire is finished, and the Conservative Party forms a new government after the next election.
		Scandal or not, that case still has to made by the new Conservative Party or the New Democrats.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0204/0204teflonlibs.htm (863 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Leaders and Parties
		The Liberal party has sometimes been described as Canada's "natural governing party" because it has formed the government for most of the past century.
		Despite a major health-care agreement in the fall of 2004, and moves to decriminalize pot and legalize same-sex marriage, the party was still labouring under the weight of sponsorship.
		The taint of the sponsorship scandal was hard to shake, though, particularly once the first report on the scandal was released on Nov. 1, 2005.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/leadersparties/parties/liberal.html (498 words)

	Cherniak on Politics
		The Conservative Party of Canada is actually arguing in court that election spending limits contravene freedom of expression in the Charter.
		This afternoon, Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc held a press conference to outline details surrounding the Conservative advertising deception during the last federal election.
		In 2004, the Liberals relied in large part on letting the Tories spend their money in the early weeks, then bombarded the public with ads when the Tories were out of money and unable to adequately respond.
	jasoncherniak.blogspot.com (5206 words)

	Proud To Be Canadian .ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Liberals (and of course the socialist NDP) like to rally Canadians to their anti-American cause by dismissing the very idea of changing Canada’s horrible health care system and “warning” Canadians that it would mean “American-Style Health Care”.
		I think that’s because it is a hellacious scandal comparable only to the current Liberal Party corruption scandal, and an inherent abuse of power by both a political party and a special interest group, both of which stand to profit at the huge expense of the general taxpaying public.
		The aim of the Communist Party of Canada is to establish a socialist and, ultimately, a communist society in Canada.
	www.proudtobecanadian.ca /blog/index/weblog/2004/05 (9835 words)

	Canada Sponsorship Scandal: Blatant, egregious, arrogant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The contract said this was a Justice Canada project but justice officials have stated that they had not requested it and received none of the services outlined in it,” the report says.
		This scandal is deep and wide and may mark the line in the sand which will determine finally, Quebec's role in Canada and Canada's role in North America.
		The former Liberal member of Parliament and cabinet minister turned Bloc Quebecois co-founder is back with the federal Liberals after a 12-year stint as a very successful media commentator.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1076116/posts (2755 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Canada is spending heavily to enhance the security of our borders, with emphasis on the highest-volume crossings, such as Windsor-Detroit, which is in fact the busiest border crossing in the world.
		Canada has long been, and continues to be, one of the safest countries in the world to live.
		Young Liberals will be selected to attend the General Assembly as delegates based on their history of involvement and commitment towards the Young Liberals of Canada and the Liberal Party.
	www.lpco.ca /news_e.aspx (6008 words)

	tBlog - canada2
		Marzolini told them that Canada's role in Afghanistan has the potential to move voters, especially in Quebec, but the Liberal position is vague in the minds of most voters – who also see the Conservatives as being for the mission, and the NDP against.
		The Liberal party’s position can not be dictated by what the governing Conservatives stupidly commit Canada to as part of their three M foreign policy, viz., moronic, moralistic and macho.
		However, not only do the Liberals face the prospect of having their own words force fed them again and again and again, the Liberal policy of decriminalization is inherently incoherent; it is political position; it is an attempt to appeal to both sides of the political divide at the same time.
	koby.tblog.com (13033 words)

	CNN.com - Vote topples Canadian government - Nov 28, 2005
		The Liberals took big losses in the House of Commons in June 2004 amid what was known as the sponsorship scandal, in which government money was paid to advertising firms to shore up support for Canadian unity in French-speaking Quebec.
		The Liberals agreed to pay $1.1 million back to the government after an initial report was issued November 1.
		The Liberals hold 133 of the 308 seats in the House of Commons, compared with 98 for the Conservatives, 53 for the Bloc Quebecois and 18 for the New Democrats.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/americas/11/28/canada.government/index.html (772 words)

	OnCampus: Making News
		A new study by the Health and Stroke Foundation states that obesity in Canada has increased 50 per cent since the 1970s.
		The increase is now the greatest threat to public health in Canada, adds the report, as overweight people are more likely to get diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and more.
		This increase is exemplified in the growing number of overweight children with these types of problems, added a U of C researcher to the Calgary Herald.
	www.ucalgary.ca /oncampus/weekly/feb27-04/making-news.html (423 words)

	BlogsCanada: E-Group
		This was over the party’s spending in the 2006 campaign to try and squeeze more taxpayer money out of the system to pay for their advertising costs.
		It turns out that the Liberals have reverted to their old, tired and worn strategy, which is basically threaten that armegedone will come if the people of Ontario dare to elect anyone other than a Liberal.
		She said her party is not an NDP spinter-group but "perfect home for former Conservatives" saying that red Tories like Flora MacDonald and Hugh Segal would be the sort of politicians who would fit inside the party.
	www.blogscanada.ca /egroup (2591 words)

	maisonneuve :: eclectic curiosity : Are Canadian Bloggers Pussies?
		There is no equivalent audience in Canada, she says, for US sites like Instapundit—a blog run by University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds which acts as an informal liaison between blogs and working journalists, and receives more than 200,000 hits a day.
		Canada simply hasn't got the population to support any blogger via Google adsense ads or any other means - and, let's be honest, nobody but Canadians is much interested in the ins and outs of Canadian politics.
		Here is an attempt to join your blog about Canada to absorb all of its meaning, suggestions and directions and to interject a catalising agenda to grow into the mature civilisation whom we need to be.
	www.maisonneuve.org /index.php?&page_id=12&article_id=1830 (3727 words)

	IAM(also)CANADIAN
		Happy Day off in lieu of Canada Day because the REAL Canada Day fell on a Sunday and we all know that government employees are so overworked they need as much rest as they can possibly get.
		Canada is the second highest taxed landmass, the first nation of bleeding hearts, and coldest part of North America.
		Give the Liberals credit for one thing - once Harper showed he was not going to touch health care, the Liberals quickly looked for something else to use as a wedge issue and, using their media connnections, put global warming at the top of canadian concerns.
	alsocanadian.blogspot.com (5713 words)

	frontpage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The scandals that question presidential credibility and legitimacy illustrate the gravest form of indiscipline, making the presidency the number one threat to military discipline throughout the armed forces.
		In a parliamentary system, a political party elects their leader during their national party convention and establishes their governing policies based on their vision for the country.
		The party with the most members who are elected to the Parliament will be asked to form the government and the leader of the party will subsequently become the Prime Minister.
	punch.dagupan.com /punchforum2.htm (11551 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Federal sponsorship scandal
		We have all just witnessed a sad spectacle -- a prime minister so burdened with corruption in his own party that he is unable to do his job and lead the country, a party leader playing for time, begging for another chance.
		Martin received his mandate by holding an election before any of the facts of the sponsorship scandal were known.
		It is a Liberal scandal that took place in Quebec, a Liberal scandal that took place in Quebec in the name of Canada and in the name of national unity.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/groupaction/address_harper.html (1009 words)

	The Hammer - Canadian Satire, Humour and Hard-Hitting News
		Fatigued from 12 plus years of Liberal rule, Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party won power on January 23 by promising Canadians change.
		An increasingly confident Stephen Harper held his first cabinet meeting this morning in Ottawa, even though his Conservative Party has yet to be elected as the nation's government.
		Informal polling suggests that voters across Canada plan to punish the Liberal Party for the Quebec sponsorship scandal by voting them out of office in the January 23rd national election.
	www.thehammer.ca (328 words)

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