{"id":280,"date":"2005-02-09T08:42:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T08:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2005\/02\/09\/adding_to_his_collection\/"},"modified":"2005-02-09T08:42:40","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T08:42:40","slug":"adding_to_his_collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/02\/09\/adding_to_his_collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding to his collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was former PM Jean Chretien’s turn on the witness stand in the Gomery Commission inquiry into the 2003 sponsorship ‘scandal’<\/a>.
\n“Chr\u00e9tien ended the day<\/a> by taking a theatrical shot at inquiry commissioner Gomery, who said in a controversial year-end media interview that he found the fact the Prime Minister’s Office had golf balls made up with Chr\u00e9tien’s signature to be “small town cheap.”
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\nFormer prime minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien holds a golf ball during his testimony at the Gomery inquiry. (CP photo) <\/i>
\nA smiling Chr\u00e9tien proceeded to pull from his briefcase golf balls that he said he’d received from people from small towns, including U.S. President George W. Bush and former president Bill Clinton.”
\nOne might say he now has a pair from Mr. Gomery, too. Gomery did try to stop Chretien, who refused to stop because “it’s too much fun.”
\nAs part of his testimony, Chretien also said it was misleading to refer to the ad agencies who allegedly benefitted from the affair as “Liberal-friendly” – he claims the agencies are in fact “federalism-friendly”<\/i> and that the alternative would have been “separatist-friendly” companies.
\nAh, well, that’s alright then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was former PM Jean Chretien’s turn on the witness stand in the Gomery Commission inquiry into the 2003 sponsorship ‘scandal’. “Chr\u00e9tien ended the day by taking a theatrical shot at inquiry commissioner Gomery, who said in a controversial year-end media interview that he found the fact the Prime Minister’s Office had golf balls made … <\/p>\n

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