Here’s an update on the Gomery inquiry, the loneliest inquiry in the universe because I’m the only citizen in the nation who is paying attention to this, the inquiry into the biggest corruption scandal in the history of Canada, which occurred under the Liberal leadership of Chretien/Martin et al.
OTTAWA (CP) – Andre Ouellet claimed to have government support – and sometimes the personal backing of Jean Chretien – for some of the projects he championed as board chairman at Canada Post, the federal sponsorship inquiry was told Monday.
Georges Clermont, former president of the Crown corporation, pointed to one initiative in particular that saw Canada Post spend $50,000 on a coffee-table book of artistic photographs in 1998. “Mr. Ouellet told me the PM (prime minister) wanted it,” Clermont testified at the inquiry headed by Justice John Gomery.
He acknowledged that he never checked directly with the Prime Minister’s Office, so he had no first-hand knowledge of Chretien’s wishes.
But Clermont insisted it wasn’t the only time Ouellet suggested to him that he had high-level backing. “He often talked about speaking to the PM.”
On other occasions, Clermont said, Ouellet would tell him he had approval for projects from “the shareholder” – a euphemism for the federal government in its role as owner of Canada Post.
Isn’t that cute? “The shareholder”! Liberals trying to play at capitalism as if it were really capitalism instead of socialism. And they speak and act almost like the federal government has its separate stash of its own cash—like it’s not ours, it’s theirs. They forgot where it came from. Vote Liberal.
And oh yeah:
Ouellet had a personal hand in the project in more ways than one. He wrote the foreword to the book, copies of which were to be given away by Canada Post as corporate gifts.
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