I figure the oozing will go on for years. Festering corruption that is deeply rooted in liberal political parties and all their divisions and branches and within all the subsections that they’ve appointed their like-minded folks to, takes years to stop, I would imagine. Note that I’m not a doctor, rocket scientist, nor even a Toronto Star columnist —-I only play a blogger on the internet. So I may be “ill-informed, distorted and downright stupid”.
Even as I read about the Gomery recommendations for a cure and how much of it turns out to be exactly identical in every way to the Conservative Party platform announced a month ago during the election campaign, Stephen Harper is boldly promising to do what conservatives all across Canada sang out like a church choir for him to do: probe deeper into the Liberal Party government’s corruption. Deeper, it should be noted, than the Liberals conveniently allowed Judge Gomery to probe.
And this, of course, is one of the reasons why a Conservative victory was so pernicious to the left—the Liberals, the Toronto Star, and others like them.
Harper calls for further RCMP probe of sponsorship
A tough-talking prime minister-designate Stephen Harper says he will push the RCMP to further investigate the sponsorship scandal, vowing his government will seek to recover the $40 to $50 million missing in government funds taken through a kickback scheme involving Liberals.
While the Liberal party has paid back $1.4 million taken during the scandal, Harper on Wednesday did not dismiss the possibility of the federal government suing the party for more money, if necessary.
“I believe we have a responsibility to take all legal steps necessary to recover that money. I’ll be asking authorities to look at the feasibility of various measures to recover that money. The fact of the matter is that there is still $40 to $50 million missing and I don’t think that should be swept under the carpet,” said Harper. […]
But even while that is happening, more EXTREMELY (Toronto Star readers and columnists note proper use of word “extreme”) troubling facts are emerging about the Liberal government (endorsed during the last election by the Toronto Star). Activities involving a division of the Public Works ministry—again.
This time, the minister is (until Monday) Scott Brison (otherwise known as ‘Fancy-Pants from Kings-Hants’ ). The ministry was formerly under the EXTREMELY questionable purview of moderately entitled people like David (“mint head”) Dingwall (1993-1996), the ever-so-moderate Alfonso Gagliano (1997—2002), and the questionably leaky Ralph Goodale (2002-2003).
If this, below, isn’t extremely troubling, I’ll eat my hat relatively quickly which even at that rate would’t be “extremely” fast.
Federal agency’s contracts suspicious
Internal government audit suggests broad problems at Consulting and Audit Canada
OTTAWA—An audit of a federal agency has revealed strong evidence—though no clear proof—that rules prohibiting so-called “contract splitting” were broken, according to new documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
The negative May 2005 audit played a role in the outgoing Liberal government’s decision last October, in advance of Justice John Gomery’s first report into the sponsorship scandal, to strip Consulting and Audit Canada (CAC) of its major functions, a federal official said Wednesday.
[…] The internal government audit suggests there were broader problems at the agency than those cited in a forensic probe by KPMG into $800,000 in contracts granted to a firm linked to David Smith, the former Liberal MP for the Quebec riding of Pontiac who was defeated in last week’s election.
A CAC portfolio director, Frank Brazeau, was suspended as a result of the KPMG audit, according to recent media reports. Brazeau, who resigned last year as vice-president of Smith’s riding association, was suspended without pay for alleged improper handling of contracts.
[…] [then-CAC chief auditor Fred] Jaakson wrote that he looked at situations where an individual received successive contracts for similar services for the same client—and for the same project and activity. He would conclude there was an “appearance” of contract-splitting if there was no “credible explanation” for why there were multiple contracts.
[…] Ray Hession, deputy minister of public works from 1982 to 1986, said the auditor’s words suggest rules were broken. “I take that to be a probability that it was contract splitting,” he said in an interview, adding that it is patronage and a serious violation.
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