Thanks. I should have read your's first. Saved me some trouble.




On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:23:05 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:37:46 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:

Canada may have to start sending down observers to make sure things are run
on the up & up.

Sure why not.

We can always learn new ways to create scandals from you folks.

For example:

APEC Inquiry - 1997 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police conduct at the
APEC summit in Vancouver.

Shawinigate - 1999 - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's profiting from
property interests in his riding.

Sponsorship scandal - 2004 - misuse and misdirection of funds
disbursed through the Liberal government's 1990s sponsorship program.
Investigated by the Gomery Commission.

In and Out scandal - 2007 - alleged circumvention of election finance
rules by the Conservatives in the 2006 election campaign

Dar Heatherington - forced to resign from Lethbridge city council in
2004 after being convicted of public mischief.

FastCat Fiasco (aka "Ferrygate" or simply "the Fast Ferries") - 1990s
construction of a fleet of high speed ferry vessels that ended up
being massively over-budget and actually slower than existing ferries

Gordon Wilson-Judy Tyabji Affair (British Columbia Liberal Party) -
semi-secret romance between the Opposition Leader and his House Whip
leads to their downfall

BC Legislature Raids ("Ledgegate") (BC Liberal Party) - raids on
offices of senior political aides in the legislature connected to
everything from marijuana grow-ops to questions connected with the
sale of BC Rail to Canadian National.

Ipperwash Crisis - incident involving the shooting death of Dudley
George, an unarmed Native activist, by an Ontario Provincial Police
officer in 1995

Kimberly Rogers - After a disputed welfare fraud conviction, Rogers
committed suicide in her Sudbury apartment while under house arrest in
2001, leading to extensive controversy around the Mike Harris
government's 1996 welfare reforms, as well as an inquest which made
several still-unimplemented recommendations for changes to the system.
Toronto Computer Leasing Inquiry - judicial inquiry into improper
computer leasing contracts made by Toronto's municipal government in
1999

Walkerton water scandal in the year 2000

Toronto Police Drug Scandal - multiple scandals broke out in early
2004, as a result of internal affairs and RCMP investigations.
Allegations of the sale of narcotics, fake search warrants, raid
tip-offs and mob gambling debts involved many dozens of Toronto police
officers, including former chief William J. McCormack's son, Michael,
who was eventually brought up on 23 charges. As a result of the
scandal, the plainclothes downtown unit which many of the charged
officers worked out of was disbanded. The court cases relating to
these charges continue.

The Thornhill Affair - involved Roland Thornhill, who resigned as
Deputy Premier in the 1990s after allegations dealing with a debt
settlement from 1980 was brought into question.

The Billy Joe MacLean Affair - MLA Billy Joe MacLean was expelled from
the Assembly after Premier John Buchanan's Progressive Conservative
government introduced legislation prohibiting anyone from sitting in
the assembly who had been indicted by the courts.

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan scandals - Scandals
that emerged in the 1990s involving Grant Devine's Progressive
Conservative government implicating 16 MLAs, with the chief conviction
that of Deputy Premier Eric Berntson in 1999.

Colin Thatcher murder.

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John H