Ouellet claimed political backing for sponsorship projects, inquiry told
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OTTAWA (CP) - Andre Ouellet claimed to have government support - and sometimes the personal backing of Jean Chretien - for some of the projects he championed as board chairman at Canada Post, the federal sponsorship inquiry was told Monday.
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Chen made the remarks yesterday when meeting a group of Canadian officials. The group was led by David Kilgour of Canada's Liberal Party, who is a member of the Canadian House of Commons.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin used his testimony at the Gomery inquiry Thursday to distance himself from the sponsorship scandal, saying that as finance minister he had nothing to do with how government departments spent money.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Auditor General Sheila Fraser had a chance in 1999 to challenge Via Rail's participation in the federal sponsorship program if she thought the Crown corporation had done anything wrong, a Via lawyer argued Thursday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The head of a public inquiry is appealing to Parliament to help him get to the bottom of the federal sponsorship scandal.
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European Union finance ministers  backed former French Socialist finance minister Dominique  Strauss-Khan on Tuesday as their candidate to run the  International Monetary Fund.
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OTTAWA -- Ad agencies were set up with federally financed slush funds to cut through red tape and speed up the awarding of grants, says the former head of the federal sponsorship program.
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Work and pensions secretary provides information to the Electoral Commission on donations made to his Labour deputy leadership campaign
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin's staff contacted the office of former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano in 1999 to inquire about &#36;600,000 in sponsorship money for a Montreal sports group, documents provided to a public inquiry indicate.
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MONTREAL - Former federal minister and ambassador Alphonso Gagliano fiercely defended Ottawa&#39;s sponsorship program Friday, saying without it, Canadian unity would have been put in jeopardy.
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Paul Martin will be called to testify at a commission of inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal, says a spokesman for the inquiry.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers came to the defence of Paul Martin Friday against suggestions by ex-minister Alfonso Gagliano that the prime minister made a grave error in abolishing the sponsorship program.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The head of the sponsorship inquiry accused a top accounting firm Wednesday of watering down a 1996 report on federal advertising projects.
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Jean Chretien, Canada's former prime minister defends his involvement in a sponsorship funds scandal.
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PARIS : The accusations made in an official US report that French businessmen and politicians received bribes from Saddam Hussein in order to influence government policy in Iraq are &quot;unverified,&quot; the French foreign ministry said.
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THE French president promoted a staunch ally to replace a popular finance minister, strengthening his hand ahead of an expected struggle for the governing party&#39;s 2007 presidential nomination.
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MONTREAL - The public servant who ran the federal sponsorship program, and two top advertising executives, will face fraud charges in Quebec Superior Court next May.