(Quotes are included in their original language)
TORY SENATOR LINKED TO KEY PLAYERS IN QUEBEC SCANDAL (The Globe and Mail, October 27, 2009)
DES LIENS ENTRE LE SÉNATEUR HOUSAKOS ET BENOIT LABONTÉ (Le Soleil, 27 octobre 2009)
LOBBYING CZAR PROBES FIRM WITH TIES TO TORIES (Globe and Mail, October 27, 2009)
TORY SENATOR LINKED TO SCANDAL PLAYERS (Canadian Press, October 27, 2009)
“The next time some shameless Conservative cabinet minister shows up at an infrastructure announcement with one of those giant novelty cheques signed by the prime minister, taxpayers might be excused for asking how much of the real cash might be going to the Mob.” (Greg Weston, Ottawa Sun, October 27, 2009)
“Le premier ministre a déjà avoué que l’utilisation du sigle du parti sur ces chèques était une erreur, mais il approuve la pratique plus généralisée des signatures par les députés.” (Maurice Godin, SRC, 26 octobre 2009)
“Instead of providing information, the ruling party is spewing propaganda… Each new report of funding skewed to Conservative advantage increases pressures for accountability. So far, the response is to provide updates long on rhetoric and short on statistics while promising the transparency that was a central 2006 Harper platform plank.” (James Travers, Toronto Star, October 27, 2009)
“The federal government preaches accountability, but is being only selectively transparent about its own spending activities. In addition to being bad public policy, this opacity does a disservice to democracy.” (Globe and Mail Editorial, October 26, 2009)
“If even 10% is being raked off the top through price-fixing and kickbacks, that means over $2 billion of taxpayers’ money going to crime syndicates.” (Greg Weston, Ottawa Sun, October 27, 2009)
“Harper photos beat out stimulus info in PMO priorities… Despite promises by Harper to publish details of every infrastructure dollar spent, no such list is available.” (Dan Arnold, CanWest, October 26, 2009)
“Everyone has had to content themselves with the Great Stimulus Challenge, in which much effort is put into collecting and interpreting partial spending figures from the stimulus plan… Of course, the government could just keep its word and release the figures, like it promised, but that would ruin the challenge.” (Kelly McParland, National Post, October 26, 2009)
