Brault said he found out that the "magic recipe" to get sponsorship contracts was to "lend a sympathetic ear" to the party's demands.
In 1996, he testified, he met with Jacques Corriveau, head of Pluridesign and a key member of Jean Chrétien's Liberal leadership campaigns.
Brault said that during a meeting on April 16, 1996, Corriveau asked him to "take under my wing for a period of a year, one person who was well liked" by the party – Serge Gosselin.
Brault testified that Gosselin, a communications expert, never had an office at Groupaction and did little or no work. Nevertheless, Brault agreed to pay him more than $80,000.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/07/domery-ban050407.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/groupaction/brault_testimony.html
The testimony released today was very bad. This is the sort of stuff that used to go on in the post-communist countries, and is still going on in young developing democracis around the globe. Im embarrassed as a canadian. This is just shameful.
We need a new Canada First party based on small campaign donations and the principle of people financial support only and representative government. We could do it.
Robert G. Mac Donald. M.D.
Canadian Patriot
I'm looking forward to Justice Gomery's report though, that will cause a huge stir - and perhaps then the country (the whole country, including the large majority of Anglophones and Francophones) will be, for the first time that I can recall since the rebellions of 1837-38, angry.
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"But I want to remind you: that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea." - Tommy Douglas
The Mainstream Press is taking the lead with this story, that means it is Suspect.
Why don't we hear of the scandals that involve the pilfering of the Canadian treasury to support Israel?
that, to me, is a bigger scandal.
Or how about the injustice of Ernst Zundel?
Lot's of news out there that smear english and french canadians, but what about the Bronfmans? They don't pay taxes!
Business as usual, let's screw over European Canadians, JUST US system hard at work.
My prediction is that a no confidence vote will be tabled before the budget is voted on and as a result we'll be heading to the polls at the end of June (at the latest). What do you think?
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"I pick the bones of what's been done. I'm the revolution when the door is shut. I bite the hand that slaps me senseless. I am far too Canadian" -SotW
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
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RickW