Gomery's Blinders and Canadian Federalism

by Ruth Hubbard and Gilles Paquet

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0776606417
• ISBN13: 9780776606415
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 8.0"