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Originally Posted by Bossnass
The current leader of our country was the Finance Minister during the sponsorship scandal. This means he is either a liar or incompetent, there is no longer any question at this point that tax dollars were wrongly dispersed. His current position and his current power plays show that he isn't politically incompetent, so maybe he is just bad with numbers.
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Not really.
Martin was the finance minister yes. He was dealing with a budget of 200 BILLION dollars. We are talking about 120 million here. That's .06 percent.
So if you make 100,000.00 per year, that's like you losing track of 60 bucks that your wife stole out of your bank account to pay for the motel room to screw her boyfriend while your back was turned.
Does that make you incompetant to manage your finances? or your wife?
Martin was not the guy signing the cheques. He was not the nuts and bolts guy. He was there basically coming up with budgets for each department. How that department spends that money is up to them. He doesn't see every single cheque that goes out the door.
Galiagno was the Minister in charge. I have NO doubt that he was receiving direction from Chretien. I honestly believe Martin didn't know about it cause if he did, he would have used it to screw Chretien in a heart beat.