POLS 3440 Lecture Notes - Unit, John Gomery, Pacific Scandal
12 Feb 2013
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This unit presents two quite different canadian scandals: the sponsorship scandal and the toronto computer leasing scandal. Every now and again, a scandal changes history. The watergate scandal in washington was one; it forced president richard nixon to resign in disgrace. Scandal of 1873 brought down the conservative government headed by canada"s first prime minister, sir john a. macdonald, and led to the election of the country"s first. More recently, the sponsorship scandal destroyed the liberal government of paul martin and led directly to the election of stephen harper"s minority. The sponsorship affair a tale of misspent millions, abuse of trust, patronage, kickbacks, fraud, political cynicism and sleazy partisanship is the biggest and gravest scandal of recent years in canada. It all began in 2000 with a globe and mail reporter"s request for documents under the access to information act (which we will be studying later). Eventually some documents were produced and the ensuing newspaper stories prompted.
