List of Canadian political scandals
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This is a list of major political scandals in Canada:
- Federal
- Pacific scandal - allegations of bribes being taken by the government of Sir John A. Macdonald (1870s)
- Scandal in the Department of Customs and Excise that led to the King-Byng Affair, 1926
- Munsinger Affair - Canada's first national political sex scandal (1960s)
- Tunagate - tainted tuna (1985)
- Airbus affair - 1995 Brian Mulroney was implicated in a kickback scheme to purchase airbus planes for Air Canada
- APEC Inquiry - 1997 RCMP conduct at the APEC summit in Vancouver.
- Shawinigate - 1999 Jean Chretien's profiting from property interests in his riding.
- 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal - Liberal Party of Canada - misuse and misdirection of funds of the Liberal government's 1990s AdScam.
- Political Influence Trading scandal - 2005 Paul Martin's Liberals implicated in offering opposition MPs patronage posts in exchange for votes on a motion of confidence
- Alberta
- Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act - a 1928 law that resulted in close to 3,000 young people being classified as "mentally unfit" and without their knowledge or consent were sterilized to prevent them from breeding their "bad blood."
- Premier John E. Brownlee - sued for seduction of a young woman and found guilty (early 1930s)
- Dar Heatherington - forced to resign from Lethbridge city council in 2004 after being convicted of public mischief.
- British Columbia
- Bingogate - New Democratic Party - skimming of charity funds (1990s)
- FastCat Fiasco - 1990s construction of a fleet of high speed ferry vessels that ended up being massively over-budget and actually slower than existing ferries.
- New Brunswick
- Karl Toft - serial pedophile molested over 200 boys while an employee in charge at the government run Kingsclear Youth Training Centre
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Duplessis Orphans of 1940s through 1960s - Maurice Duplessis government and the Roman Catholic Church.
- Saskatchewan
- Progressive Conservative Scandal - 1990s Scandal involving Grant Devine's Progressive Conservatives implicating 16 MLA's, with the chief conviction that of Deputy Premier Eric Berntson in 1999.
External link
- top 10 canadian corruption scandals (http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/groupaction/scandals.html)