No bounce back yet for the Liberals. Decima has released this poll.
Conservatives: 35%
Liberals: 28%
NDP: 18%
They are also reporting that the Liberal is going to the Conservatives, not the NDP.
Hat-tip NealeNews for the above and below story.
It just gets worse every day! Here is a report in the Toronto Star.
...A former senior Liberal organizer fingered as the man who demanded cash payments from the ad firm Groupaction has fired back with explosive allegations that a small network of party chieftains doled out contracts, sponsorship deals and judicial appointments to Liberal stalwarts in exchange for their work on election campaigns.
...Benoît Corbeil, who served as executive director of the Liberal Party of Canada's Quebec wing in the late 1990s, told Radio-Canada that of the 20 or so lawyers who volunteered for the party during the 2000 federal election, some "seven or eight" were appointed to the judicial bench.
"Anyone who wanted to be a judge or win mandates needed to have friendly relations with those people," he told the network.
...Asked whether his political masters, who included former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano, knew about the illicit donation, Corbeil said "everyone knew what was happening."
Emphasis added. And you have pretty much seen this report everywhere by now!
Here is the Globe and Mail report.
...“I took the bills [from Mr. Brault] and with that, I paid people, without declaring it [to Elections Canada],” Mr. Corbeil said, refusing to state exactly how much money he received that day.
“I have to admit it, that's the way it happened,” he said.
...Mr. Corbeil said most of the recipients of cash payments were Liberal supporters who took unpaid leaves from their positions in ministerial offices to work on the general election.
“I liked to call them fake volunteers,” he said.
...He said that after the referendum, two goals were approved by the highest authorities in the Liberal Party: Annihilate the Conservative Party in Quebec to unite all of the federalists in Quebec under the Liberal banner, and ensure that the Liberal Party became synonymous with Canada in the province of Quebec.
Did you catch that. They used taxpayers dollars to annihilate the Conservative Party in Quebec. Well at least that corruption was more successful than battling the BQ.
Also we get a clue as to why the Quebec wing of the Federal Liberal Party was broke.
...Mr. Corbeil said that as the director-general of the party in Quebec, his biggest challenge was raising funds.
He said the Quebec wing of the party was in a constant rivalry with the national organization, which got the first crack at the biggest donors in Quebec.
He said the Quebec wing always wound up with the crumbs, and that it could never find a permanent solution to its funding woes.
“Maybe if more people had listened to us and paid more attention, maybe we could have avoided some problems down the road,” he said.
Update: CTV has a denial from the Liberals.
...Prime Minister Paul Martin dismissed allegations made by a former high-ranking Quebec Liberal that implied Liberal supporters received judicial appointments in exchange for working on election campaigns.
"The fact is that no judicial appointment is made until it has gone through a committee," Martin told reporters Thursday.
And we all know how much teeth that committee has...
