In 2010, Canada hosted the G8 summit in Toronto. In the year leading up to the now infamous event, the Harper government misappropriated funds in order to lavish $50 million on, then cabinet & industry minister, Tony Clement's Parry Sound-Muskoka riding for 32 projects, including gazebos, parks, public toilets and other beautification projects, many of which were hours away from the G8 summit site in Huntsville..
In 2011 the Auditor General concluded that the government "did not clearly or transparently" explain how the money was going to be spent when it sought Parliament’s approval for a G8 legacy fund for Tony Clement’s riding and that the government “misinformed” Parliament about the G8 legacy fund and suggested it may have acted illegally.
Following the AG's damning report, former Liberal MP Marlene Jennings made a formal complaint which triggered an RCMP investigation.
In an 2011 letter to the director of public prosecutions, Jennings said the government may have willfully violated two appropriations acts and the Financial Administration Act, which stipulate that the government must disclose how it intends to spend the money when it seeks parliamentary approval for funding.
Tony Clement and John Baird defended their criminal actions until the bitter end.
Following the investigation where new evidence emerged, New Democrats MP Charlie Angus called on Tony Clement to turn himself in to the police after disclosing documents which they say show that he lied and covered up his role in dispensing a $50-million G8 "slush fund" in 2010 based on new documents in which a senior federal bureaucrat contradicted Clement's insistence that he was not involved in choosing which projects to spruce up his riding would get funding.
"He told the Canadian people, 'If anybody could ever prove that I would do that, I'd turn myself over to the cops.' Well, Tony, what about it?" said Angus.
Not only has Tony Clement NOT turn himself in to the authorities in light of the evidence of cover-up and for misleading the Auditor General, but our good ol' Crime Minister Stephen Harper even went as far as promoting the slime bucket for a job well done in orchestrating the heist, to the position of.. get ready for it.. President of the Treasury Board, where Clement is now in charge of overseeing government spending as it attempts to eliminate the federal deficit.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011 ... eport.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/11/02 ... 72358.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/23 ... 23643.html