Flashback: Adscam Firm in Charge of Gun Registry
Some bloggers are salivating over the yet-to-be-released AG’s report on the gun registry. I thought I would bring something to remembrance here, as some facts have gone down the memory hole.
Additional testimony Friday also bolstered allegations Chretien confidants helped choose the winners and losers when it came to federal contracts.
Renaud said Groupaction landed the lucrative gun registry contract in the mid-1990s because the firm was close to Jacques Corriveau, a graphic designer and friend of the former prime minister.
Asked how he knew Corriveau’s influence was the winning formula, Renaud said he was told as much by ad executive Jean Lafleur, whose firm was part of the consortium that won the contract along with Groupaction.
In one case, a Sun investigation almost two years ago revealed Groupaction billed the feds hundreds of thousands of dollars for gun registry work that no one seems to remember being done. The firm is now facing criminal charges related to those contracts.
