Scandal of the mixed liability companies

The scandal of the mixed liability companies is a media expression Québécois to indicate the attempts of the Liberal party of Canada, of 1996 with 2003, to exaggerate the advantages of Canada near the Québécois population. They belonged to operations intended to prevent a favorable vote with the sovereignty of Quebec, and were made using the money of the Gouvernement of Canada, but without control of its share.

Being especially an advertizing program at the beginning, advertizing agencies would have received important sums, 332 million CAD on May 25th 2005, on behalf of the government of Canada. They would have benefitted from it to invoice amounts too high very often.

Following the resignation of the Prime Minister Jean Chrétien with the autumn 2003, its successor, Paul Martin, created the Commission Gomery to determine the persons in charge in the beginning of the scandal. The Québécois Block and the Conservative party of Canada will try to reverse the government following this scandal, but will not reach that point before November 2005, because the Liberal party had succeeded in obtaining the support of the Nouveau democratic party under promises to carry out certain reforms with the programs concerning the environment.

To analyze this at the same time governmental and legal headache, the article presents the scandal like a play.

Scenario

The commission, under federal jurisdiction, acts like a legal court. A judge, on request of prosecutor and defense counsels, invites to testify various people. The choice of the witnesses is ideally made after investigation of a police body, but the denunciation made before the commission can feed the witness stand.

The scandal implies federal politicians and advertizing agencies which all are Québécois, but has an impact on the whole of finances of the country. Enormous money sums left the trunks of the Gouvernement Canada without checks and prior approvals. The commission tries to determine which took these amounts, which benefitted from it and which was used as intermediary. The operation implying all these people (physical and morals) is often called the “program of mixed liability companies” by the press.

Since the majority of the actors come from Quebec, the commission carries out the majority of its work with Montreal.

With more than one recovery, witnesses tried to make invalidate work of the commission. The Federal court of Canada refused their application.

The incidence of the revelations made before the commission is notably higher in Quebec than elsewhere in Canada. The exact reasons are unknown.

May 24th, 2005, the Ontarian newspaper Ottawa Citizen denounces the setting-up of an office of monitoring, with the profit of the Liberal party of Canada, “effects of the revelations of the Gomery commission”. The operating costs of such an office are of: 500000  CAD per year.

May 30th, 2005, according to the newspaper the Press , “… the government of Paul Martin signed with lawyers of Jean Chrétien a secret agreement which recognizes with the former Prime Minister the right to be attacked again in Federal court to the partiality of the police chief John Gomery, who chairs the investigation into the scandal of the mixed liability companies. ”

July 6th, 2005, the Institut Fraser publishes a report on the scandal. According to the report/ratio, “It was not only of one operation dishonest person, but rather about a system consisting in making pass the money of the taxpayers in hands deprived while remaining close to the current government. ” “The study also shows the existence of certain conflicts of interests in the financial relations between the Liberal party and a certain number of organizations, including/understanding the GRC, the Office of the private Council and the two greater advertizing agencies of the federal government, of which it was not correctly made yet state in the media. ”

Political parties

The money was distributed via various people, some working for the Liberal party of Canada.

Participants in the commission

The commission inquires into holding and the outcomes of the program.

Other participants

To feed its research, the commission calls upon various groups to carry out precise mandates.
  • GRC, body police which acts on the territory of Canada
  • Kroll, Lindquist and Avey, arranges accountancy which audits the public accounts

Reports/ratios

First report/ratio

The auditor general of Canada produced an in November 2003 report/ratio, returned public in February 2004. It is following this report/ratio that the Martin government announced the Gomery Commission. A first analysis was published as of April 2004, it acts of the Scandal of the mixed liability companies: a crime of State. One presents to it a detailed chronology of the facts and a presentation of the laws which were violated. The implication of the politicians explanation the fact that one can conclude with a crime from State.

The first emitted report/ratio on November 1st 2005 by Gomery judge strongly blames old the Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien, for her participation. The report/ratio concludes with a political interference from the close guard from Jean Chrétien in management from the program. According to Gomery, the program was used to feed a complex system of bribes benefitting the Liberal party from Canada. Also, the principal private secretary Jean Pelletier, Alfonso Gagliano, Charles Guité, Jacques Corriveau, like several senior officials, leaders of advertizing agencies, as of other liberal organizers are pointed finger. For more details, to see.

The former Prime Minister for Canada, Paul Martin, was exonerated from any blame.

External bonds

  • File of the newspaper '' the Duty ''
  • File Gomery commission in Radio-Canada

Sources

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