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Author Hubbard, Ruth, 1942-

Title Gomery's blinders and Canadian federalism / Ruth Hubbard and Gilles Paquet
Published Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introduction; The 100 Million Mirage; The Fabric of Society; The Quail Enigma; Gomery I: Flawed from the Beginning; Gomery II: Fear of Blurring and Lack of Temperantia; What Justice Gomery Failed to See; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Index
Summary In 2004, Paul Martin asked Justice John Gomery to lead a public inquiry into potential misspending in the federal Sponsorship Program, a relatively small investment of taxpayers' money to try to convince Quebeckers of the benefits of Canadian federalism in the aftermath of the 1995 referendum on Quebec separation. The Gomery inquiry chose to focus exclusively on the sordid details of the money laundering and paid no attention to the deeper causes and sources of the problem: the dysfunctions of an existing centralized governing apparatus that is tearing the fabric of the country apart and the co
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120) and index
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Subject Canada. Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities.
SUBJECT Canada. Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities fast
Subject Federal government -- Canada
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- General.
Politics and government
Federal government
SUBJECT Canada -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019350
Subject Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Paquet, Gilles
ISBN 9780776616049
0776616048
1280690518
9781280690518
9786613667458
6613667455
9780776618494
0776618490