(Hat tip to reader “Maureen”)
This relatively newly-revealed Liberal government (RIP) scandal has been brewing for a while (yet totally smothered by the liberal media during the just completed election), but I wanted to make sure our Washington Post readers saw it. Compare “Watergate” with the Liberal Party of Canada generally. (Hint: Watergate was merely an inappropriate belch by comparison).
Head of space agency urged to step down
Undermined by funding scandal, scientist saysQUEBEC—The president of the Canadian Space Agency, Virendra Jha, is being urged to step down during a police investigation into alleged misappropriation of public funds involving a suspicious multi-million-dollar development contract.
The $7.3-million contract was awarded by the agency in June, 2000, to the Montreal-based company Tecsult Eduplus Inc. and approved by Public Works Canada at the time Alfonso Gagliano was the Liberal minister in charge of the federal department.
The probe launched by the RCMP commercial-crime section was initiated following a formal complaint filed last month by former CSA scientist Samir Elomari.
Mr. Elomari said Mr. Jha, who took over from former Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau as head of the agency last fall, cannot adequately perform his duties during the police investigation.
“Mr. Jha, who was CSA vice-president at the time of the handling of the contract, . . . could be involved in the agency’s alleged criminal behaviour,” Mr. Elomari said in an interview yesterday. “He is under police investigation. It would be foolish for him to stay as president.”
Well excuse me for being inconvenient to the Liberal Party and the millions of liberals who unhypocritically voted for them even while knowing they were mired in criminal investigations, and awfully sorry to one of the Liberal Party’s “star” candidates (who the Liberals parachuted into a riding and who then mercifully lost), but if Mr. Jha was VP and he is under police investigation, doesn’t this implicate Marc Garneau who was in charge, as well? And how do these dots connect?
In February 2001, Marc Garneau was appointed Executive Vice President, Canadian Space Agency. He was subsequently appointed President of the Canadian Space Agency, effective November 22, 2001. He resigned from this position on November 28, 2005, to run for office in the federal election.
[…] The case revealed that no written progress reports on the contracts were ever produced and that the money was never accounted for. A document showed that Access to Information Commissioner John Reid could find no reports to show that work on the contracts had ever been done. “I can confirm that the reports requested do not exist, even though our inquiry reveals that the contracts require that the company produce monthly reports,” Mr. Reid wrote in response to one of Mr. Elomari’s access-to-information requests.
The situation is similar to the pattern unveiled during the Gomery inquiry into the federal sponsorship program, where Mr. Gagliano was a key witness. The Gomery commission uncovered a scheme where public funds were redirected through ad agencies back into the coffers of the Liberal Party.
Dint Marc Garneau know nuttin?
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