Is our government being run by (A) decent humans who’s life work is to serve our nation honorably; or by (B) a Liberal Party of Canada who’s main goal is to serve themselves, and help themselves to our money, and care about nothing more than staying in power? You’d think the clear and obvious answer would be (A), but it clearly isn’t, and if it isn’t, you’d think the obvious solution would be to apply a boot with force upon the nether regions of the said Liberal Party at election time. Or indeed demand their withdrawal from service and call an election since we can do that in this now clearly wacky country.
But sadly, that apparently isn’t the Canadian way.
This liberal government seems to include an awful large number of sneaky lying crime-family-type liberal bureaucrats. And bear in mind we don’t know everything they do behind closed doors—we know only a tiny fraction.
Today brings news that could well be an excerpt from a mafia crime novel. But it’s not. It’s about liberals and our government which they seemingly own. And Canadians are lapping it up as if it were actually a great crime novel rather than real life.
‘I wasn’t in the club,’ PR man tells Gomery
Felt pressure to donate to Liberals
MONTREAL – PR man Gilles- Andre Gosselin said yesterday an aide to Alfonso Gagliano, the former minister responsible for the sponsorship program, left him with the impression his reluctance to make political contributions to the Liberal party cost him contracts.Mr. Gosselin told the Gomery inquiry that he twice contributed money to the Liberals, but was generally reluctant to mix politics with business.
His firm earned $3.2-million on $21-million in contracts under the program. But Mr. Gosselin said that when sponsorship contracts to his firm began dropping off, he met with Mr. Gagliano’s chief of staff, Jean-Marc Bard, and was told “your adversaries are busting your mouth, and if it goes on like this they’ll break your jaw.”
He said Mr. Bard was not explicit about the connection between contracts and contributions. “He talked in parabolas. But I understood that I wasn’t in the club.”
Mr. Gosselin said there were no clear rules governing billing, and he received no complaints from the government about his bills.
He cited the absence of rules and complaints in trying to explain why he billed for hefty management fees on top of generous commissions paid out on sponsorship programs.
In one instance examined by the commission yesterday, Mr. Gosselin’s firm received a $72,000 commission to handle a $600,000 sponsorship for a TV series on hockey legend Marurice [sic] Richard, and billed an additional $21,000 in management fees for work that largely consisted of making phone calls, attending meetings and viewing the rushes from the series as it was being produced.
On one occasion, Mr. Gosselin billed for six hours of work at a rate of $135 an hour simply for driving from Ottawa to Montreal and back.
[…] Mr. Gosselin’s firm also worked hand in glove with a company owned by his wife Andre and later his son, Nicolas, which provided promotional materials, such as T-shirts, backpacks and watches for sponsored events.
Mr. Gosselin would obtain the items and pass them along to the government and charge a 17.5% commission on top of the markup charged by his wife’s firm.
And in another version: “But Mr. Gosselin said Mr. Bard, angry because he had been kept waiting for breakfast because of a mix-up over the starting time, told him his competitors were “beating” him and things could get worse. “He said, ‘listen, your opponents are beating you up and if this keeps up, they will have your jaw ripped off.’ “
That, from our Liberal government of Canada. Your government.
MONTREAL – An advertising executive told the Gomery inquiry yesterday that his firm started losing sponsorship contracts about the same time that he faced intense pressure to donate to the federal Liberal party.
[…] Mr. Gosselin recounted the story of a tense breakfast meeting at Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier Hotel in September, 1999, that he arranged with Jean-Marc Bard, Mr. Gagliano’s chief of staff, to find out why his sales were dropping.
[…] The breakfast meeting came a few months after Mr. Gosselin kicked up a fuss about making a $10,000 donation to the Liberal party with his new business partner, Jean Brault of Groupaction. Mr. Gosselin sold his company to Groupaction in the fall of 1998, but his sale price was tied to the merged firm’s performance.
Mr. Gosselin said he was first told about his expected donation by a Groupaction vice-president. He said he resisted making a contribution and took it up with Mr. Brault, who told him the donation “was over and done with” and the cheque had already been sent and deducted from his account.
Mr. Gosselin said he protested the donation because it “was against his principles” to be involved with partisan politics.
He said he was also pressed into buying a table at Liberal fundraising dinner for former prime minister Jean Chretien by Liberal fundraiser and organizer Diane Deslauriers.
Ms. Deslauriers is the wife of Claude Boulay, another ad executive whose dealings will come under the scrutiny of the inquiry. Mr. Gosselin said Ms. Deslauriers persisted with many calls, suggesting he was the only agency that hadn’t made a contribution. He said he finally decided to write the $5,406 cheque to stop the pestering.
“She was very insistent and said you are the only person who hasn’t contributed … so I finally gave in and sent the cheque so she would leave me alone because she had called an untold number of times.”
Mr. Gosselin launched into his description of his “odd discussion” with Mr. Bard at their breakfast meeting after Mr. Cournoyer asked him if anyone else had ever talked to him directly or indirectly about funding the Liberal Party of Canada.
All of that is just from this morning. The Gomery inquiry into Liberal Party corruption has been going on for months, and will continue for months.
Imagine what we don’t know. Imagine what liberals do behind our backs.
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