Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 11, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba A11 Winnipeg free press focus monday april 11, 2005 backstory to a Bombshell and executive Jean Brault a sensational Boss to have or. Guit Lead a review testimony of corruption within the that would centralize Communia Liberal party last week rocked the tons a Branch he would subsequent nation. Or. Brault a tales of kickbacks by direct. Clandestine meetings and envelopes or. Dingwall has testified he can to stuffed with Cash however beg the remember much about or. Guit. But question where did it All begin or. Guit told a commons committee free press editorial writer Catherine last year that when he first met or. Mitchell today provides the backstory Dingwall the minister slapped him to or. Brault a bombshells. A on the Back and welcomed him aboard the Liberal ship despite his a Best auditor general experience in the conservative gov Sheila Fraser could discern Ern ment with the words you wont the concept of pumping fed rat on them you wont rat on eral Money into Quebec to under or. Dingwall sponsorship defeat separatism became an official enjoyed special Protection from the Federal program in 1997. But the axe of Liberal deficit slashing. Or. Public works minister of the Day Guit said he met sometimes twice Diane Marleau weekly with or. Dingwall to discuss told a Public his work. Inquiry com his work included the now Infa missioner years Mous single phone Call in 1995, when later she knew or. Guit spent $8 million buying up nothing of it. Advertising and Media space in que How could a Bec. He told an earlier commons program Central committee in 2002 that he began to the Chr Tien spending with the instructions to Fol administrations Low a bit of the guidelines that exist in crusade to the rules and i May have to for a save Canada better term Bend them a Little bit have escaped because As you All can understand the notice of its minister we were basically at War trying to the answer to that lies in the pro save the Grams frantic and Clandestine roots but saving the country became syn which ultimately nursed its broader ony Mous under or. Guit a direction shadowy purpose. Of the program with feeding the sponsorship As an idea was con party a cronies friends and Liberal Cei Ved in 1995 ostensibly to counter coffers. In the spending frenzy or. The propaganda of Quebec separatists Guit became an inveterate Rule would later admonish auditors from Quebec reaped the Mother ode of tracts what they were Worth Hows the province marched quickly to a breaker. Or. Guit had corralled As that firm for editing out some Damn sponsorship spending. A Montreal much in commissions they were paid referendum. It morphed ? under the Early As 1995, a select and Small ing details from its original draft soccer team received $150,000 in ? Why would a minister require such noses of Many including a former group of Quebec advertising Agen form ? including a warning the 1998, for example. When an Edmon a detail ? and which Community prime minister who Cut the program cies. His programs budget came Branch was Lucky the conduct had not ton team applied for the same amount groups were applying. He gave its first cheques and the current from or. Chr Tien a $50-million Unity yet led to Legal action or Public the next year it was told there were advice on which should be minister whose Treasury fund. Contrary to government no funds available until an area my so did Jean Pelletier or. Chr Tien a Board kept the funding pump primed tract regulations according to is sponsorship accounted for More called the minister. Then both teams chief of staff and titular head of the ? into a pocket picking scandal that Fraser there was no Public bidding than half the communications were Given $30,000. A Community col Unity fund. When or. Guit retired casts new Light on the notion of Politi process in selecting the agencies no Branch a annual spending yet its lege in Saint Georges was Given amid a simmering scandal he Pascal corruption. Other suppliers had a Chance to com work was shrouded. The program $5,000 for a mural with a Small Cor replaced by or. Gagliano a chief of is Fraser noted in her report Pete for the work. Garnered Only one mention ? noting Ner of the painting staff Pierre Tremblay. Or. Tremblay released in 2003, sponsorship was a when the Chr Tien administration 291 events had been sponsored ? in reserved for the subsequently complained bitterly and everything in 1997 centralized Media Advertis government program unlike All oth Public works performance reports in name of local lib often about the interference from his ers ing opinion polls and sponsorship six years. Eral my Claude was geared Boss a political office. Or. Gagliano a ? t he Federal government did not within Public works 10 advertising unlike other programs its exec Drouin. A Skybo new chief of staff Jean Marc Bard to ensuring firms were chosen including those inform parliament of the programs Tive director or. Guit reported at Montreal Cana was said to be the Guy at the objectives nor has it Ever report Quebec hand picked in 1995. Or. Guit was directly to the minister and the minis Diens games Host among government programs de the results. Former officials of made executive director of the Ter a staff. De ministers their reaped the sponsorship was an animal of its own Public works communications Branch. That surprised Diane Marleau. She families and and above official reporting and spending Mother ode of Branch told us that after the 1995 the War of the billboards in Quebec told a commons committee when or. Agents and Bureau controls. From the Early Days when Quebec referendum the government was fed by cheques Cut from trea Guit waltzed into her office and crafts. And agencies sponsorship Allan Cutler complained rules were wanted to raise its profile in Quebec sury Board. The Money came with All announced exactly that she replied hired to find Bill spending being broken and was subsequently by sponsoring local events and so it the requisite rules attached ? that not this minister and showed him boards to plaster moved to another obit was a file set up the sponsorship program. Spending would follow the Regula the door. Is Marleau lasted 18 and events that controlled by political , we saw no such direction tons and guidelines for contracts and months in Public works. When the needed Money also managed the con Given the contempt its director an from the government and no formal that adequate Chr Tien team was re elected in 1997, tracts and were to report Back to gov political masters showed for adminis analysis or strategic plan. In the oversight would the War she was replaced by Alfonso Ern ment Success of the events. Tractive Law and guidelines around the absence of any written direction from follow As required of the Gagliano. Or. Dingwall lost his Cape such reports were rarely written operation of programs spending of the Deputy minister or the executive by the financial Breton Riding in 1997. He then but or. Guit paid for them. One Public funds and contracting with billboards committee of Public works and any administration formed a consulting company ? Agency managed a $490,000 a fore outside agencies it is not hard to see written decision by the Cabinet or the act ? but a Pat in Quebec Wallding International ? which seen events fund out of the sponsor How the anniversary at a town Square Treasury Board it is not Clear to us Tern of misconduct earned $133,500 from one of sponsor ship budget and the owner remarked in Italy might also qualify As a Spon was fed by How the decision to create the pro was Well Stab ships favoured and agencies. He also it fed events largely in or. Gagliano a worship event and How the invoice ram was made and by whom. Nor is listed. Or. Chr cheques Cut picked up a patronage Plum ? ceo and or. Chr Tien a Ridings. Artificial was filed amid the accounts for it Clear Why the decision was not com Tien told the from Treasury of the Canadian mint invoices and contracts were filed or Ottawa a Winter festival. Munic ated in Gomery commis with free Access to or. Gagliano in some cases Money was paid where any minister Ever associated with Board Sion in his Munfor the spending spree began Long or. Guit Laid Down a pipeline pump no contract existed. Agencies double the bold Liberal Campaign to save before is Fraser delivered that gettable ing hundreds of millions of dollars billed organizers and Public works Canada now swears never to have had damning assessment. Performance in february that he had into Quebec Over the next half dozen for the same work sometimes for any involvement in the Sticky detail sin 1995, Jean Chr Tien awakened insisted at Treasury Board that All years. There was no Community events that never occurred. Of sponsorship. Or. Gagliano in fact finally and alarmingly to the fact he rules regulations and guidelines had event ethnic gathering or Trade show is Fraser a audit was unable to said he is a victim of sponsorships had Given separatism a free ride in to be but this was a per too Small to receive big Bucks for Fly determine what Benefit came from Slippery deals. This is a Man who Quebec. The Public purse was fun tory dictate and Chuck Guit was ing the Flag or hanging a Banner with $250 million of sponsorship spending ordered staff to remove Sticky note snapped open. Not at the table. The Canada word Mark on it. And Agen ? her audit could not follow the recording his instructions from min David Dingwall then minister of by 1997, the use of and agencies for cies charged exorbitant commissions Money beyond the governments interial files when he was ousted from Public works and a Loyal Chr Tien sponsorship and advertising in que and fees to deliver that Money to hands. She noted that fully 40 per Public works As the dirty details Foo Soldier called upon Charles Bec had already rung alarms senior event organizers As they did when cent ? $100 million ? went to and began leaking out.Guit?, nominally a departmental bureaucrat Allan Cutler complained Crown corporations were used to agencies for Little or no work. Or. Gagliano a claim to victim Hood bureaucrat reportedly known from at least two years earlier about the Send even More Cash into Quebec. Or. Guit a disdain for probity stood alone until last week when with his work with the former Mulroney rampant abuse of rules ? backdating almost no paperwork documented accountability and value for Money testimony piling up about and agent government As the kind of Guy Politi contracts payments for work undone the deals. Or. Guit has said he was the Centrepiece of her audit. Pressured to Kickback Money to Theca operatives could work with. In approving improper Advance pay shunned keeping such records and the details were scandalous to Vot Liberal party prime minister Paul 1994, or. Guit was in charge of ments ? under the direction of or. Filed the details in his head. Others ers but Well known in the depart Martin announced his whole part advertising in the department. Or. Guit an audit by Ernst and Young in have noted he kept a paper shredder ment and High political offices. Or. Has been a sponsorship victim aide Warren Kinsella 1996 had revealed administrative and at his Side. Gagliano was routinely briefed on wrote a memo in 1995 exhorting his ethical malfeasance. John Gomery everything was geared to ensuring which agencies were getting con. letters to the editor the free press welcomes letters from readers. They must include the authors name address and Telephone number. Letters May be edited. Letters to the editor 1355 Mountain Avenue Winnipeg r2x 3b6. Fax 697-7412. Email Good thinking Bush so let me get this straight europeans of various nations who last Century were trying to kill each other have a common currency and can travel at will in the eur but people in Emerson Man. Are going to need a passport to go get their mail Good thinking Bush ? you have managed to derail Naftal and the familial working relationship Between the most powerful nation on Earth and its most valuable trading partner in one fell swoop. Myles Shane Hildebrand Winnipeg taxes should help roads if it weren to for Federal and provincial taxes that litre of gasoline Selling for 92.5 cents would be a lot less. Equally annoying is the fact Little of these fuel taxes we pay end up going to Highway repairs which by the Way was the original intention in the first place. Al Yakimchuk Winnipeg other Side of the Story after Reading the March 30 article Chavez muzzles Venezuela Media i think canadians should know the other Side of the Story. President Chavez of Venezuela is learning How to confront the Power of Washington. He knows what happened in Chile before the military coup in 1973, when the Media funded by . Interests were destabilizing the Economy and the Unity of chileans. The late president Allende elected democratically by the people never prosecuted his enemies nor closed the opposition newspapers and we know the consequences he was killed and chileans suffered 17 years of bloody .-supported tyranny. The . Needed chilean Copper and now they need venezuelan Oil the fourth largest supplier to the Ameri can demand. Furthermore president Chavez a recent International tour to negotiate Trade with the european Union and China brings panic to the . Govern ment. So in their View it is imperative to Stop this especially since the latin american countries created the South american Community of nations in december 2004 with a similar plat form to the european Union. Yes this is what worries the journalist from the Washington Post. The dream of the visionary Simon Bolivar the Liberator is coming True. He wanted a unified Strong latin America in order to confront the doonesbury expansion of the . With its Monroe doctrine of the americas ruled by the United states Only. And remember that president Chavez was elected democratically using Universal suffrage something that does not happen in the United states system. Chavez survived the military coup against him presumably supported by the Empire of the now he is becoming a real menace for the Multi National corporations. That explains the Media Campaign to discredit his administration. Francisco Valenzuela Winnipeg by Garry Trudeau ;