Lots more explosive testimony today at the Liberal Party corruption inquiry, which the Liberals will summarily deny, tell us that “this is what we want all Canadians to find out about us because we ordered this corruption inquiry”, and then liberals across the land will dutifully repeat, zombie-like: “yeah, but at least they’re cleaning it up and they didn’t have a hidden agenda, and they aren’t scary so yeah, like fer sure I’m voting Liberal”.
It’s almost like this Gomery Liberal Party corruption inquiry is helping the Liberals score points in Canada even as more and more damning testimony hits the fan.
Among other things, we find more testimony revealing that the hundreds of millions of our dollars was indeed all about helping Liberal Party people and getting Liberals elected since some of this started even before the Quebec referendum, and some of it involved China and Italy—places where Liberals had personal interests of one kind or another. It was not all about saving the country, as Chretien/Martin claim. And for the first time we find that the list of Liberal-friendly firms involved has expanded outside of Quebec, to Toronto.
It’s another very, very bad day for the Liberal Party—at least it is in a sane world. Here, it will go by as another day. Just another day. Weird.
Throughout his week testifying in Montreal, Guite named names, including the prime minister’s.
Guite testified that back in 2000, he was told that then-finance minister Paul Martin had intervened to ensure a Liberal-friendly ad firm wouldn’t lose its lucrative contracts with the federal sponsorship program.
Guite had already left the civil service by then, and was lobbying the government on behalf of the Toronto-based advertising agency Vickers and Benson Ltd.
Hoping to secure the future of his firm’s ad contracts with Ottawa, Guite said he had lunch with his former boss, Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano.
“He said he’d look after it,” Guite told the commission.
A week later, Guite says he got a call from Gagliano’s chief of staff, Pierre Tremblay.
“The minister had spoken with both ministers and the volume of business would be maintained,” Guite testified. He claimed he was assured Vicker’s contracts with two federal departments—Industry under John Manley and Finance under Paul Martin—were safe.
Martin and Manley have issued statements denying the allegations.
[…] Guite also claimed ad contracts were routinely handed out to reward ad agencies that did election work for the Liberals.
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