Yes this is yet another new one, just hitting the news now. This isn’t another criminal probe into the “income trust” scandal or the sponsorship corruption scandal—this is yet ANOTHER totally brand new RCMP criminal probe.
Mounties eye another referendum handout
The RCMP is looking into a controversial $4.8-million grant that was awarded to a pro-Canada group at the time of the 1995 referendum on Quebec sovereignty, officials have told The Globe and Mail.
The money went out more than 10 years ago in three disbursements to a little-known group called Option Canada, which has since been disbanded.
On Dec. 23, 2005, the RCMP quizzed two officials at the department of Canadian Heritage about the 1995 expenditure. It remains unclear to how the entire grant was used, but a source said that there are questions surrounding the distribution of an amount, believed to be $300,000.
The RCMP review is the latest bad news for the Liberal campaign. Last week, the Mounties launched a criminal investigation into whether the government’s November announcement of a tax change favourable for income trusts was leaked. […]
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