Crown Corporation Board of Directors Proportion of Political Contributions Sorted by Party

About a week ago, I wrote of the hypocritical bias that exists at the CBC, our Canadian State Broadcasting Corporation. While they whined and complained at the mere notion of the arrival of any semblance of parity in debate in this country, I crunched some numbers and found how ‘fair and balanced’ they really are.

Today, former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien testified at the Gomery Inquiry and provided little insight into the political direction which may have directed the program. Tomorrow, Paul Martin takes the stand and will mark the first time in Canadian history, since Sir John. A MacDonald, that a sitting Prime Minister has provided testimony in a judicial inquiry.

Anyways, we all remember how Paul Martin promised that he’d “get to the bottom” of the Sponsorship Scandal “come hell or high water” before the “most important election of our lives”? Or something like that…

Well, I just did Paul Martin’s job. I believe that I got to the bottom of the Sponsorship Scandal. I present the political contributions of the boards of directors of the very Crown corporations which are at the centre of the Liberal mess.

First Canada Post,
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and now Via Rail,
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I’ll let the data speak for itself. You might not have to be a Liberal to be a Canadian, but to get the posh government jobs you’d better be, and you’d better bring your chequebook.

Yes, I got to the bottom of the Sponsorship Scandal (well… at least further than Paul Martin has pretended). There is but one obvious truth to be learned from not only this data, but from this Liberal scandal in general:

Cronyism begets corruption.

Chretien-Adscam link established

Jean Carle, a former top aide to Jean Chretien and senior executive at the Business Development Bank of Canada, admitted Friday that he helped construct a phoney paper trail to conceal details of a $125,000 sponsorship deal.

The blunt revelation from Jean Carle – who is described as having a father-son relationship with the former prime minister and once lived in his basement – places the scandal in the heart of Chretien’s circle of intimates.

Carle’s startling testimony, at the public inquiry into the federal sponsorship program, drew a tart observation from Justice John Gomery. “If this were a drug deal, it would be called money-laundering,” said Gomery.

“You’re not wrong,” Carle meekly replied.

— Source: CP

Interview with the Western Standard

I got an email yesterday from Kevin Steel, a reporter from the Western Standard requesting a telephone interview concerning my CBC Board of Directors “exposé” from January 30th.

The interview lasted longer than I ever expected as we chatted about things from CBC bias to the Shotgun to the Blogging Tories.

My first media interview with a nationally distributed political news magazine was an overall positive experience (let’s wait to see how it’s written up — but I knew that I was in ‘friendly’ territory). Thanks to Paul for bringing my post to the Western Standard‘s attention, and to Kate too for her recent nod on the Shotgun.

This past year, I’ve noticed a significant emergence of conservative media in Canada. I’m hopeful that in the next year, and in years to come, our media efforts will see further refinement and focus from the blogosphere, to print, and to broadcast.