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CBC News has learned that Stephen Harpers former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, had control of a secret fund in the Prime Ministers Office when he cut the now infamous $90,000 "personal cheque" to disgraced Senator Mike Duffy.
In exclusive interviews, sources familiar with the fund tell CBC the money in it comes from Conservative Party coffers, and at times has reached almost $1 million.
Like all political party funds, more than half of all the cash in the secret PMO stash ultimately comes from taxpayers' pockets. Individual donors to political parties receive generous tax credits. Parties also receive millions from taxpayers through a per-vote subsidy, which is being phased out by 2015.
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Its existence has apparently been a closely guarded secret for the past seven years, even within the Prime Minister's Office. Only a few Conservative insiders know how the PMO cash stash has been spent.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/06/06/pol-weston-conservative-fund-wright-pmo.html
Gosh, we now have a sequel to "All The President's Men", it will be called All The Prime Minister's Men. Shades of Watergate or what!
SDjack
(1,448 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Spazito
(50,442 posts)Like Bilderberg.
And no railroad nor pipeline involved. Well not that we know about. There is a lot of shit going on among the heavies in TO.
Spazito
(50,442 posts)Legs, this has long, beautiful legs, imo.
Don't have to fall back on "gates". We have had our own scandals.
Railroads, transcanada pipeline, Munsinger affair that whacked Diefenbackcker, prisoners getting out of jail using garden hoses
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/03/18/f-canadian-jail-escapes.html
Lucien Rivard, 1965
Lucien Rivard was arrested in Montreal in 1964 on narcotics smuggling charges filed in the U.S. He was held at Bordeaux jail until March 2, 1965, when he escaped with another prisoner. They scaled the jail wall with a garden hose they had obtained on the pretext of flooding the skating rink.
Rivard was on the run for four months before being captured in Montreal. He was quickly extradited to the U.S., tried and convicted, but a bribery and corruption scandal over the Rivard affair had already engulfed the federal government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson.
Two high-ranking officials resigned. A royal commission criticized how the federal justice minister, Guy Favreau, handled the investigation and he, too, resigned.
Rivard was the Canadian Press Canadian Newsmaker of the Year for 1965. The 2008 film Le piège Américain (The American Trap) tells Rivard's story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsinger_Affair