Canada Liberal Party's $ 100 Million Plus Corruption Scandal
 

On Feb. 10, 2004, federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser released the
hotly-anticipated results of her audit of the controversial government
advertising and sponsorship program run by the federal Public Works
Department.

She found that $100 million was paid to a variety of communications
agencies in the form of fees and commissions and said the program was
basically designed to generate commissions for these companies rather
than to produce any benefit for Canadians.

The program has been in the spotlight since 2002, when Fraser
recommended the RCMP investigate how $1.6 million in federal
government advertising contracts were handed out to a Montreal ad
agency. Officials in Canada's Public Works Department "broke just
about every rule in the book" when it came to awarding contracts to
Groupaction Inc., Fraser said.

Opposition critics allege the program was used to award lucrative
advertising contracts to Liberal party supporters.