Sunday, November 06, 2005
Liberals Admit Mistakes With Sponsorship Program
Ottawa (FN) - In the waking of the Gomery Report on the sponsorship scandal, Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin admitted that serious mistakes were made with the beleagured sponsorship program.
"The sponsorship scandal is offensive to me as it is to all Canadians. The sponsorship program attempted to bribe Canadians with their own money. This was a grave error. Instead of using a middle-man, we should have just bribed them directly," Martin said.
In an effort to show that the Liberal Party has changed its ways, Martin announced a new initiative through Elections Canada to ensure such misguided attempts at bribery do not happen again.
"Here's how it works. You vote Liberal, you get ten bucks. Simple. Just tick off Liberal on your ballot, show it to the returning officer, he gives you ten bucks cash. Ca-ching! In fact, that's going to be our slogan in the next campaign 'Today's Liberal Party....Ca-ching!' Roll that over in your mind when you go to vote. Liberal - Ca-ching! Tory - Looo-zer! Pretty simple," Martin said.
The Liberals' new, improved voter bribery system confirms the government's commitment to fiscal prudence, said Finance Minister Ralph Goodale.
"In the last election, roughly 14 million Canadians cast ballots. Under the Ca-ching! Program, even if 100 per cent voted Liberal, it would only cost Canadian taxpayers $140 million, a 30 per cent savings over previous voter bribery programs. This is targeted tax cuts at its finest," Goodale said.
posted by Mentok @ 8:39 p.m.,
6 Comments:
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At 9:15 p.m.,
Mentok said...
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American Sub-titles:
The Sponsorship Scandal (aka Adscam) is the most significant Canadian political event in over a decade.
Following the near-miss Quebec separation referendum in 1995, then-Prime Minister Jean Chretien (Liberal) launched a massive, secretive program to promote Canada to Quebeckers.
The program almost immediately turned into a giant slush fund for funnelling money to Liberal-friendly ad firms who did little or no work for gigantic billings and who frequently paid large kickbacks to the Liberals for the privilege of getting contracts.
Current Liberal PM Paul Martin claims he knew absolutely nothing about this grotesque corruption, even though he was Finance Minister at the time.
Ironically, the program has had the opposite effect it was originally (allegedly) set up to achieve. Quebeckers are so insulted by the notion that the government would try to bribe them to like Canada that support for separation has soared.
And that is something that Americans should pay attention to, since it involves political instability on their own continent. -
At 12:41 a.m.,
Mentok said...
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But the long and short of it is that this will only be funny to Canadians. Sorry, Yanks, gotta play to the home crowd sometimes.
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At 4:51 a.m.,
Canadian Sentinel said...
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The Liberal plan is too simplistic. Besides, who believes they won't still be corrupt after bribing voters and getting a hundred percent support?
Fugeddaboutit. A Librano cannot change its pinstripes. They'll always be crooked. It's their nature to rip off taxpayers.
Hey, and as there're so many of them, why not allow taxpayers to hunt 'em? Open season! No bag limit! Pinstripe camoflage on sale now! -
At 10:07 p.m.,
NL-ExPatriate said...
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Sweeet Post Mentok Thanks!
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At 10:10 p.m.,
NL-ExPatriate said...
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http://soapbox22.blogspot.com/
There is a blog here unsure name 12 years libranos I think.
It's a list of the scandals the Lie berals hae been apart of in the last 12 years. Some 200 so far. -
At 10:47 p.m.,
mkecurler said...
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Oh Canada!
