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this is from a post on a members website, thought i would post it here:

If one watches the CBC and it's blatant bias you can feel the screws turning on all those commies who are going to get their precious funding cut if the Libs fall. It's almost laughable, CBC's biased coverage of this is so obvious.

do you even watch the CBC? i dont see a difference in coverage between it or global or ctv, far as the news hour type show goes.

Martin to Grits: Keep the faith
PM VOWS TO BURY SCANDAL
By MARIA MCCLINTOCK, OTTAWA BUREAU

IN A desperate move to hang onto power in the wake of fallout from the Adscam inquiry, Prime Minister Paul Martin issued a letter to all Liberals late last night pleading with them not to lose faith in the party. "If there are those who abused our party's trust by using their position or their association with it, they have done a terrible disservice to the people of Canada and the members of our party," Martin said in the letter.
"Like all Liberals and all Canadians, I'm offended by what I've heard in recent testimony. If even part of it turns out to be true, it is abhorrent to us all."
Martin issued the letter after a day where his party saw itself lose about 10 points to the Conservatives in a new national poll and at least five of his MPs were rumoured to be thinking of bolting.
Earlier in the day, Martin insisted he still had the "moral authority to govern."
"I have the moral responsibility to act," he said. "That's what I have done, and I have done that right from the beginning."
Martin said he was "personally offended" by the explosive testimony of ad exec Jean Brault. "That is not the way politics is done in Quebec. It is not the way politics should be done in Canada," Martin said.
As part of its defensive, Liberal Party of Canada president Mike Eizenga also issued a statement yesterday, insisting any cash the party received through "illegal or improper" means will be returned.
Although the polling numbers are looking good for the Conservatives, Leader Stephen Harper tried to dampen growing election speculation.
"I always take the polls with a great deal of skepticism. We'll wait and see what the public has to say," Harper said.
Liberals considering their political options include Edmonton MP David Kilgour and London, Ont., MP Pat O'Brien. There is speculation there could be as many as five preparing to walk.
Tory national campaign chairman John Reynolds said plans are under way for a spring election.
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It’s coming apart,

"Like all Liberals and all Canadians, I'm offended by what I've heard in recent testimony. If even part of it turns out to be true, it is abhorrent to us all."

What a load, Martini was the CFO of this country, so either he is big idiot ok’ing money for this or he is a big liar. Or maybe he is using the third option, he thinks we are a bunch of fools and we keep the Status Quo.

Tue, April 12, 2005
RCMP probe stirring pot
By Greg Weston -- Sun Ottawa Bureau



In the latest episode of Desperate House Lies, Paul Martin's government has announced it is calling in the Mounties to find out who stole all the stolen sponsorship money otherwise intended for the Liberal Party in Quebec.
This will no doubt bring welcome relief and warming reassurance to Canadian taxpayers everywhere, especially those on the wrong medication.
The good news is the Mounties may be able to get some pretty good leads over soup and a sandwich
Turns out their cafeteria at RCMP headquarters in Montreal is run by Buffet Trio, the family catering company of Joe Morselli.
Morselli is also the former Liberal bagman named in last week's bombshell Adscam allegations that the sponsorship program was rife with kickbacks, bid-rigging and money-laundering.
We know of nothing illegal about Morselli's contract to provide munchies to the Mounties. It's just the idea of the RCMP investigating the hand that feeds them is, well, a bit delicious.
Last week, Montreal advertising executive Jean Brault testified that his firm, Groupaction, used phony invoices to launder over $1 million worth of sponsorship funds into Liberal party pockets through Morselli and others in return for over $40 million in government ad contracts.
In one case, Brault testified, he paid Morselli $50,000 to help Groupaction keep a lucrative advertising contract with the federal Justice Department.
Forked over $5Gs
On another occasion, in a scene reminiscent of hit TV show The Sopranos, Brault said he gave Morselli an envelope containing $5,000 at an Italian restaurant.
Exactly how Morselli's company came to have the catering contract at RCMP headquarters is not entirely clear. A federal Public Works official says that while that department handles the catering contracts in most federal buildings, Morselli's firm was picked by the RCMP division in Montreal -- the same one investigating Adscam.
Morselli's good luck in federal contracting didn't stop with the RCMP kitchen.
Buffet Trio also has the cafeteria contract at the huge federal tax centre in -- wait for it -- Jean Chretien's home town of Shawinigan.
A Public Works official says Buffet Trio first won that contract in a "competitive bid" in 1998, at the height of the sponsorship program.
Morselli's firm won the contract again last fall under the Martin government -- and still has it.
All of which may leave the RCMP -- and the Liberal government -- with more than a bit of indigestion.
Already, Canadians might be excused for wondering why the Adscam investigation is in the hands of the one Canadian police force already up to its Musical Ride in the scandal.
Historic report
Let us not forget the Mounties' proud past, immortalized by Auditor General Sheila Fraser in her historic 2003 report on the sponsorship fiasco: There they were at the height of the sponsorship fiasco, riding off into the sunset with over $3 million of sponsorship loot, much of it laundered through a secret RCMP non-government bank account in Quebec.
Finally, as the Martin government once again turns to the Mounties to clear the Liberal party's good name, we are reminded of a fascinating letter in our investigative file.
The letter from then RCMP assistant commissioner R. J. Mercier was dated May 28, 1998, at the height of the sponsorship fiasco.
It was addressed to Chuck Guite, the disgraced former bureaucrat who ran the sponsorship program, and is now facing criminal fraud charges.
The letter from the RCMP brass was inviting Guite "to take the salute during a short ceremony prior to the Musical Ride performance."
At-ten-shun!

Tue, April 12, 2005

Martin is no Mr. Clean
Paul Martin's proclamation yesterday -- that he is the Mr. Clean of the sponsorship scandal and just the guy to scrub away the stain it has left on the Liberal party -- is pathetic.
In his latest desperate strategy as Liberal support plummets across the country, Martin declared that he is "personally offended" by last week's devastating testimony from former Groupaction president Jean Brault.
But surely, the most offensive testimony of all before the Gomery inquiry -- for those who are truly taking it seriously -- was the insufferably arrogant performance by Jean Chretien in February. During that appearance, the former prime minister made clear his utter contempt for Justice John Gomery and his commission, capped off by his silly stunt with the golf balls.
Why, then, if Martin is truly offended by what went on inside the sponsorship scandal under Chretien's watch, did he gushingly praise Chretien's inquiry performance at the Liberal caucus meeting the very next day?
Media reports quoting sources inside the room said Martin told caucus he thought Chretien had done "a tremendous job for Canada" and he was delighted with Chretien's testimony. Then he reportedly punched his fist in the air and led Liberal MPs in a standing ovation for Chretien!
Liberal caucus chair Andy Savoy later said Martin "put Chretien on a pedestal and I think the entire caucus is really proud of Chretien. Chretien was the small-town guy that opened a big-town can of whup-ass on his detractors."
Given all this, how can Martin -- indeed, how can any Liberal MP -- stand before the public and claim to be genuinely offended by what the Gomery inquiry is now uncovering?
It appears that when Martin and his caucus thought Chretien might succeed in discrediting the Gomery commission with the public, they were happy to cheer him on.
But now that the inquiry has revealed damning allegations about Grit kickbacks and corruption that have infuriated Canadians, Martin has gone back to "plan A" -- express disgust.
As for Martin's claims of innocence, doesn't he realize most Canadians have long since concluded that if he didn't know about AdScam, he should have?
And that neither he nor his party is the solution to this mess. Rather, they're the problem.
And another thing ...
While it's good news there will be no transit strike, we're left with one troubling question. If, as city politicians originally claimed, Toronto couldn't afford more than a 2% wage hike for its workers this year, why did they raise the bar to 3% in this, their very first round of labour negotiations? Where's the money going to come from when all other city unions demand the same?

Canadaka , you better get some more drive space, i think before this is over you'll need it.

Looks like it hit the American Press...

Canada's Liberals on brink of fall over scandal


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/n ... dal12.html

This should be interesting...

Wed, April 13, 2005
MPs on vote alert
ADSCAM FALLOUT TORIES GAUGE PUBLIC, NDP HAS PLANS, GRITS SAY TAKE 'STEP BACK'
By MARIA MCCLINTOCK, OTTAWA BUREAU
SPECULATION mounted yesterday that Canadians could be at the polls as early as June in the wake of more explosive testimony at the AdScam inquiry and another national poll giving the Tories an edge over the Grits. All federal parties are on election alert and even senators were told they had to remain in Ottawa this week, forcing some committees to cancel scheduled out-of-town hearings.
Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer said Leader Stephen Harper has asked his MPs to gauge public appetite for an election when they return to their ridings the week of April 25.
LISTENING TO VOTERS
"It will be for gauging people's thoughts on what we should be doing and hearing if they think it's really a time we should be pushing for an election to replace this government, and I think by that time people will have had a lot of opportunity ... to digest (what they're hearing)," Jaffer said.
NDP Leader Jack Layton said his MPs are also gearing up. "We've always had a contingency plan in the event that an election came about. Naturally, with the speculation at a heightened level, our preparations are much more intense than they would normally be," he said.
"Every party has an obligation to the Canadian public to be ready if an election happens ... so we're ready."
But Liberal MP John McKay isn't convinced explosive testimony at the AdScam inquiry will be enough to ignite an election.
"I wouldn't argue that Gomery hasn't done damage to the Liberal brand -- that's a fair comment," McKay said.
"People need to step back and take a bit of a breath. Certainly (testimony) will move voter intention in Quebec but that doesn't do Mr. Harper a wit's worth of good. The question is, does it move voter intention anywhere else?"
SUPPORT SHIFTING
The election unease in Ottawa comes as a new poll shows the Liberal free fall continuing and support moving to the Conservatives. A Leger survey conducted April 8-11 showed the Tories in front with 34% support, the Liberals at 31%, NDP 18% and Bloc 13%.
The Grits have dropped nine points nationally since the end of 2004. They have slipped by six points in Ontario but still lead the Tories 41% to 35%.
Voter dissatisfaction with the Martin government now stands at 56% -- only 36% of Canadians say the government's doing just fine.
The poll of 1,504 is considered accurate plus/minus 2.5% 19 times out of 20.

Wed, April 13, 2005
Harper scoffs at Grit 'audit'
'FORENSIC ACCOUNTING REVIEW'
By Maria McClintock
THE FEDERAL Liberals were forced to admit yesterday they opted to do financial "reviews" rather than full "audits" to determine if any sponsorship money made its way into party coffers. The Conservatives called the Grits on their audit line when it produced proof from firms Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Deloitte that their examinations didn't include cash flow to riding associations, and that they had to rely strictly on information provided by the Liberal Party.
"Pricewaterhouse Coopers says that what it is doing here does not constitute an audit. Deloitte says: 'Our services were engaged to perform a forensic accounting review, no audits,'" Conservative Leader Stephen Harper told the Commons.
Harper added that the Deloitte report also stated that, "the Liberals set the rules for what transactions they actually looked at. That did not include any money to riding associations which is where all the sponsorship money was funnelled."
Public Works Minister Scott Brison couldn't deny Harper's assertions.
"A forensic accounting review is a very thorough review of all accounting. That is exactly what Deloitte did and that is exactly what Pricewaterhouse Coopers did," he said.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Paul Martin was accused of meeting for lunch with one of the key ad execs linked to the sponsorship scandal -- a charge he's denied.
The charge was levelled by Tory MP Jason Kenney, who peppered the PM with accusations he met with Claude Boulay, the president of Groupe Everest, and discussed contracts for funding for Attractions Canada which received sponsorship cash.
Martin dismissed Kenney's question as nonsense.
Adding to Martin's headaches is talk by two Liberal MPs, David Kilgour and Pat O'Brien, of crossing the floor to join the Conservatives

Wed, April 13, 2005
Chretien pal got millions
MONEY A 'THANK YOU' FOR DEALS
By STEPHANIE RUBEC, SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER
A GOLFING buddy of former PM Jean Chretien raked in $6.7 million for landing a Quebec publishing empire lucrative federal sponsorships, the AdScam inquiry heard. Luc Lemay, owner of Expour and the Polygone publishing giant, said the millions were a thank you to Jacques Corriveau for landing him $42 million in sponsorships from 1997-2003 -- by far the lion's share of the $250-million program.
Lemay first hired Corriveau, Chretien's riding organizer and bagman, to design Expour's first outdoor show in 1997.
Lemay said only two short months before his show was set to open at Montreal's Olympic Stadium, Corriveau showed up with a vital $450,000 federal sponsorship.
Lemay said he paid Corriveau $125,000 to design the show, expressing surprise yesterday that Corriveau had also billed an ad firm managing the sponsorship another $27,300 for the same work.
Lemay said following the profitable Montreal show, Corriveau took him for dinner at a posh Hull restaurant to meet then-sponsorship director Chuck Guite and then-Canada Information Office head Roger Collet.
Lemay said Corriveau became his go-between with Guite, so he signed a contract giving the Liberal bagman a generous cut of all future sponsorships handed to Expour and Polygone.
"I offered Corriveau a commission of 17.5%," Lemay told Justice John Gomery yesterday.
Lemay said he had no idea what kind of funds Corriveau could tap into, or that he would have to cut a $6.7-million cheque to Corriveau's Pluri Design.

Wed, April 13, 2005
Ex-PM moves to new digs

By CP
JEAN CHRETIEN and his wife, Aline, have moved up from a condominium apartment to a $1.95-million home in Ottawa's posh Rockcliffe Park neighbourhood. The Chretiens made the move with help from their daughter, France, wife of Andre Desmarais, president of Montreal-based Power Corp.
Property records show the home at 290 Sandridge Road is owned jointly by Aline Chretien and France Chretien-Desmarais.
Public records show a mortgage on the property for $600,000 in the name of Aline Chretien with the Bank of Montreal. Since Chretien stepped down as prime minister, he and Aline had been living in an apartment overlooking the grounds of Rideau Hall, residence of the governor general. They put the condo on the market several months ago with an asking price of $879,000. They paid $720,000 for it in 2003.
It is not known whether they had a buyer for the apartment. Their new home has spectacular views across federal parkland to the Ottawa River and the Gatineau Hills.
It last changed ownership in April 2004. At that time, it was listed for $1,295,000.

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“help from their daughter, France, wife of Andre Desmarais, president of Montreal-based Power Corp.”

Did they help move the furniture in ?

Why would he need help ? maybe cause he gave them the money a while ago and now it’s payback time.

This was too good to leave on the letters page.

It was 31 years ago that U.S. President Richard Nixon resigned in the aftermath of Watergate. What was the crime? A break-in of Democratic Party headquarters. Every liberal, left-wing voice in the U.S., along with some members of his own Republican Party, demanded his withdrawal from political life. Here in Canada, we have a government that stole millions of dollars to finance the Liberal party's coffers, mismanaged billions more, from the gun registry to secret and unaudited accounts -- you can add your own favourites to this list -- and the media are not demanding the immediate dismissal of this government? Which country has a more legitimate form of government?

Jacob Honig

Calgary

(It'll be up to voters to dismiss this government)

the latest and greatest is out of MONTREAL -- A golfing buddy of former PM Jean Chretien raked in $6.7 million for landing a Quebec publishing empire lucrative federal sponsorships, the Adscam inquiry heard. Luc Lemay, owner of Expour and the Polygone publishing giant, said the millions were a thank you to Jacques Corriveau for landing him $42 million in sponsorships from 1997-2003 - by far the lion's share of the $250-million program.

but wait the national news yesterday reported the ex PM purchased a house, if you can call a 2 million dollar residence a house in Ottawa. Oddly it bears his name the name of his wife and his daughters nme as well. I don't know bout you but when I purchased my home my kids names were not on the deed nor the mortgage. and the price of the mortgge is only a 6 hundred thousand bill????? must of had one hell of a down payment.

Nah. With all the golf balls autographed by scandal benefactors which Jean showed up with at the inquiry he likely made a fortune off selling them on ebay.
CBC radio had a guy on there today who said he got caught for not reporting 100 dollars on EI and had to pay 600 dollars back. the 100 and a 500 dollar fine. these guys should, if the inquiry recommends charges loose their homes, planes, cars, pools etc as being proceeds of crime.

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