Canadian GP link to Adscam mess

Interesting story in the Toronto Sun today. According to the report, the GP billed the sponsorship fund for 600 non-existant tickets to the Cdn. GP. Race promoter Normand Legault is set to take the stand this week.



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GOMERY TO PROBE ANY ADSCAM ROLE



By STEPHANIE RUBEC, SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER

JUSTICE JOHN Gomery will take his first bite out of a Liberal rainmaker this week when former PM Jean Chretien's golfing buddy makes an appearance before the AdScam inquiry. Jacques Corriveau is expected at the Gomery commission as early as Tuesday, where he will be grilled by lawyers on his dealings with Liberal-friendly ad firms and about his involvement in the scandal-plagued $250-million sponsorship program.

Tomorrow Gomery is expected to uncover where the 600 VIP Montreal Grand Prix tickets purchased through the sponsorship program went when he questions the event's owner, Normand Legault.

Legault will be accompanied by two Grand Prix staffers to explain what the federal government got for its money during the 1998 sponsorship of the popular car race, and how much federal funds the event received.

A Gomery official suggested that the feds never got the 600 tickets they paid for -- that, in fact, those seats had already been sold to race-car fans.

The official said the 600 tickets billed to taxpayers could have been included in a dummy invoice sent to public works to bilk taxpayers through the sponsorships.

Legault was also responsible for getting racing star Jacques Villeneuve to autograph a racer's hood for Groupaction Marketing founder Jean Brault. "