POLS 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Karlheinz Schreiber, Airbus A320 Family, Airbus Affair
27 Jan 2016
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Reflecting on gomery: political scandals and the canadian. Chretien spent a quarter of a million dollars to try to improve. Most of our ancestors took political corruption for granted. B. c is the only province that has sent a minister to jail for corruption (but he partly kept his seat at the next election) Pacific railway scandal drove macdonald"s liberal conservatives out of office in 1874. Tom mcgreevey was one of the rare canadian politicians to actually do jail time died penniless. Laurier"s liberals came to power in 1896, used patronage: 1907 halifax program talked of a civil service commission to end patronage. Byng affair: beauharnois scandal: kickbacks to party developers intent on damming the st. lawrence to generate hydro (king once again used deniability) Businessmen sweezey said, gratefulness was always regarded as an important factor in dealing with democratic governments .
