Canada: New Lib scandals: This time it's the Gun Registry and a hi Liberal Party officer

No, not the Gomery investigation of Adscam Liberal kickbacks; no, not the Liberal's Dingwalli Affair; no, not the new RCMP investigation into Liberal Income Trusts. This time it's the Gun Registry and the sticky fingers of Kim Doran, Deputy National Director for Organization and Policy of the federal Liberal Party. A front group was also involved, Coalition for Gun Congrol.

The entry in the ... database clearly shows $380,600 going to Kim Doran of the Capital Hill Group from the Department of Justice to help pay for her services to lobby on behalf of her client, the Coalition for Gun Control.

I guess the Coalition for Gun Control got a freebie. A professional lobbyist, paid for by the government in order to tell the government what it wanted to hear.

Thanks to Angry in the Great White North for catching my eye on this one, and thanks to Bourque for apparently breaking the story in the first place. While on the site, I noted that Bourque at the moment is also carrying yet another item regarding yet further Liberal skullduggery, so I clicked up that one too. Stephen Taylor's blog (subtitled "Conservative Party of Canada Pundit") tells us the story of Claude Dauphin and Option Canada. The gist here:

In the 1995-96 transfer payments summary, on page 8 of 82, under a section titled "Grants to organization representing official language minority communities, non-federal public administrations and other organizations for the purpose of furthering the use, acquisition and promotion of the official languages", a $4,810,000 payment to Option Canada from Montreal, Quebec is listed.

And a little further on, Taylor summarizes:

Why is this important in the current context of the election?

* This brings Adscam back into the spotlight
* The RCMP is investigating the Liberals on another scandal
* Dauphin is closely linked to Paul Martin
* This makes Martin's claims of ignorance towards Adscam increasingly unbelievable.

It's sad to see the Liberal Party's infamy erupt again, just when we had hoped the worst had been brawt to lite. It used to be said that the Liberal Party was "the natural governing party of Canada." Now it seems to be even truer that the Liberal Party is the naturally corrupt political swamp of Canada. - Politicarp