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Spazito

(50,429 posts) Thu Jun 6, 2013, 05:46 PM Jun 2013

PM's former chief of staff controlled secret Tory fund

CBC News has learned that Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, had control of a secret fund in the Prime Minister’s 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!

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PM's former chief of staff controlled secret Tory fund (Original Post) Spazito Jun 2013 OP

Harpergate -- a name that will live in infamy. nt SDjack Jun 2013 #1

Canada's trying to catch up to the US! blkmusclmachine Jun 2013 #2

LOL! Yep, sure looks like we have a Nixon in the works n/t Spazito Jun 2013 #3

Secrete CHIMO Jun 2013 #4

Yep, the curtains are developing tears in them, how big we have yet to see... Spazito Jun 2013 #5

We CHIMO Jun 2013 #6

SDjack

(1,448 posts)

1. Harpergate -- a name that will live in infamy. nt

Reply to Spazito (Original post)

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 05:53 PM

Jun 2013

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)

2. Canada's trying to catch up to the US!

Reply to Spazito (Original post)

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 07:16 PM

Jun 2013

Spazito

(50,429 posts)

3. LOL! Yep, sure looks like we have a Nixon in the works n/t

Reply to blkmusclmachine (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 07:29 PM

Jun 2013

CHIMO

(9,223 posts)

4. Secrete

Reply to Spazito (Original post)

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 07:56 PM

Jun 2013

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

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5. Yep, the curtains are developing tears in them, how big we have yet to see...

Reply to CHIMO (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 08:03 PM

Jun 2013

Legs, this has long, beautiful legs, imo.

CHIMO

(9,223 posts)

6. We

Reply to Spazito (Reply #5)

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 08:35 PM

Jun 2013

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

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