{"id":8772,"date":"2011-04-11T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8772"},"modified":"2011-04-11T14:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T18:04:23","slug":"election-bombshell-in-leak-of-auditor-generals-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/election-bombshell-in-leak-of-auditor-generals-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Election bombshell in leak of Auditor General&#8217;s report?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/canada\/breakingnews\/tories-misinformed-parliament-on-g8-fund-may-have-broken-law-auditor-general-119595104.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Winnipeg Free Press<\/em><\/a> has a potentially explosive article about a leak of part of the Auditor General&#8217;s report:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Harper government misinformed Parliament to win approval for a $50-million G8 fund that lavished money on dubious projects in a Conservative riding, the auditor general has concluded.<\/p>\n<p>And she suggests the process by which the funding was approved may have been illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are contained in the draft of a confidential report Sheila Fraser was to have tabled in Parliament on April 5. The report analyzed the $1-billion cost of staging last June&#8217;s G8 summit in Ontario cottage country and a subsequent gathering of G20 leaders in downtown Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>It was put on ice when the Harper government was defeated and is not due to be released until sometime after the May 2 election. However, a Jan. 13 draft of the chapter on the G8 legacy infrastructure fund was obtained by a supporter of an opposition party and shown to The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This could be the big break that the opposition parties have been waiting for: the leak is just about perfectly timed for maximum effect (just before the first debate), and the Auditor General has refused to discuss the news story or to give any interviews during the election campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winnipeg Free Press has a potentially explosive article about a leak of part of the Auditor General&#8217;s report: The Harper government misinformed Parliament to win approval for a $50-million G8 fund that lavished money on dubious projects in a Conservative riding, the auditor general has concluded. And she suggests the process by which the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,9,28],"tags":[363,188,578,258],"class_list":["post-8772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-law","category-media","tag-corruption","tag-electionwatch","tag-g20","tag-stephenharper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2hu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8774,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions\/8774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}