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8 Independent & Free Press, Wednesday, May 16, 2007 NORVAL PLUMBING CENTRE INC. "If You Don't Know How - We'll Show You How" PARTS - INSTALLATION - SERVICE Deluxe Style AHM Liberals must come clean about grants In 2003 the Dalton McGuinty-led Liberals were willing to say anything to get elected. Now, as we approach this fall's provincial election it appears the Liberals are willing to pay anything to get elected. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Mike Colle has been hammered by Opposition members in Question Period regarding dollops of taxpayers' money that were recently doled out to a number of community groups only days before the government's fiscal year end. It turns out several of these organizations have significant ties to the Liberal Party, in one case six of seven members of the Board of Directors were contributors to the Ontario Liberal Party. In another case, the wife of a Liberal MPP is a director of a group and his name is registered as a contact for the group's web site. In another, charitable status was only in place three weeks before the grant was paid. In addition, these grants of taxpayers' money were handed out without any process in place to determine how organizations would qualify for the grants. There was no application to complete, no criteria to be met, nor any provincially appointed board conferring the grants. Minister Colle was clearly flustered during several Question Periods as he ham-handedly attempted to dodge and weave a number of direct questions related to the affair. Certainly, those legitimate organizations that utilize the Trillium Foundation process to get Ontario government grants will be questioning this rather bizarre process. Minister Colle even suggested in response to a question that charitable status was not necessary for a group to be provided money. Charitable status is a prerequisite for a Trillium grant. The Ontario Liberals have a history of refusing to take ministerial responsibility for mistakes. Small Business Minister Harindar Takhar refused to step down after the Integrity Commissioner VANITY WITH MARBLE TOP 49" x 22" White high gloss finish MSL $896 Vanity 49" Vanity with granite top & basin. Heartland Sink Cast Iron, White MSL $514.88 Ted Chudleigh ruled the Minister was in a conflict of interest regarding his personal affairs when he was Minister of Transportation. Also Minister of Infrastructure David Caplan refused to step down over the insider winners' scandal at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. The slush fund scandal is particularly bad. Only rarely do scandals involve direct misappropriation of taxpayers' funds. It appears that the Liberals used taxpayer's money, disguised as grants to local multicultural groups, as payoffs to Liberal supported organizations. It reeks of the federal Liberal Party's involvement in AdScam and if it widens, it could suck the entire Ontario Liberal government into a black hole just before a provincial election. Minister Colle's duck and cover game will not wash. Taxpayers need to know who authorized these payments. The government must provide any background applications they have. Without them, we need to know who knew what, when did they know it, and why were long-standing community groups sidestepped in the grant process? It's bad enough that these grants seem to have been funded with money that was held off the books by the government-- a clear breach of accounting principles-- but when the slush fund is used for political purposes-- it could be in breach of the criminal code. Ontarians deserve answers quickly. 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