To continue my post from last week about the finances of the Federal Liberal Party of Quebec and the ridiculous notion put forward by Jean Lapierre. To refresh, how could they have stolen money if they are so broke. The questions actual is the answer but in reverse. They stole the money because they were so broke.
Check out the video by Jennifer Tyron on CTV. Federal ridings inside and outside of Quebec were fighting over the same fundraising dollars and it was getting increasingly hard for the Quebec wing to get a share. In their drive to do fund-raising they forgot to pay the QST and GST and ended up accumulating a $400,000 debt - split between Revenue Canada and the equivalent in Quebec. Paying this off out the Quebec wing in serious debt.
As is painfully clear by now, the Sponsorship Program was never about National Unity, it was about bailing out the Quebec Wing of the Federal Liberal Party.
Cross-posted to The Shotgun
