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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Ben Wicks Link to Sponsorship Scandal
:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/31/2007 12:30:00 AM When I first read that a cartoonist was linked to the Sponsorship Scandal (specifically, the scandal over the spending by the Council for Canadian Unity & Option Canada during the Quebec referendum), I was mildly curious --but not curious enough to read the book by Normand Lester and Robin Philpot, Les secrets d'Option Canada, which started the Grenier inquiry. Likewise, I was unmoved in the direction of the recent English translation. Now that the inquiry report is out, it looks like the cartoonist mentioned might have been Ben Wicks. According to the National Post:
In total, the Council for Canadian Unity and Option Canada received $10.9-million from Heritage Canada between the PQ's arrival in power in 1994 and the referendum. Most was spent in the run-up to the official referendum campaign, which was not illegal.
Among the acceptable federal expenses noted by Mr. Grenier was $160,500 for 30,000 copies of the book Dear Canada/Cher Canada, by the late cartoonist Ben Wicks, presumably intended to win the hearts of wavering Quebecers.
The list of infractions is listed on the Electoral Officer of Quebec's website here. The full report is available as a link from here as a 170 page .pdf that crashed my computer when I tried to read it in Adobe.Labels: links, political cartooning, Quebec, real world
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