Ottawa subsidized legal costs for Chrétien loyalist: report

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On the day it was voted out of office, the federal Liberal government agreed to subsidize Jean Pelletier's legal fight to overturn certain conclusions of the Gomery report, Montreal's La Presse reported Tuesday.

La Presse said it has obtained a copy of a letter dated Jan. 23 – election day – in which the then-president of the Treasury Board, Reg Alcock, committed Ottawa to pay up to $40,000 of Pelletier's legal bills in a Federal Court challenge of Gomery's findings.

The $40,000 would be in addition to about $565,000 in legal bills the government paid for Pelletier during the Gomery inquiry, the newspaper said.
 

Jay

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RE: Ottawa subsidized legal costs for Chrétien loyalist: rep

I don't think it is a lesson they will ever learn.
 

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Re: Ottawa subsidized legal costs for Chrétien loyalist: rep

perhaps, but you never know with new leadership they may change. But for all the BS Paul Martin said before the election is is crystal clear to me that the Liberal party leadership just didn't get it. The nations money does not equal liberal money.
 

Jay

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RE: Ottawa subsidized legal costs for Chrétien loyalist: rep

They think of themselves as the natural governing party...whats a few million here and there to further the good cause?
 

Finder

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Re: Ottawa subsidized legal costs for Chrétien loyalist: rep

True their arrogance was one of the reasons which brought them down.

Even if this is in the grey and not against the law, you'd think with so many people watching everything they do, you would have thought they would have at least try to make themselves appear ro be totally in the light instead of skirting the law or at least running the line and using loopholes, and "governoring rights" to take money from the puplic as if it was their own expence account. :(