INDEPTH: SPONSORSHIP SCANDAL
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CBC News Online | November 1, 2005
"Justice Gomery said we should let the report speak for itself. I concur."
—Prime Minister Paul Martin, who also said he forwarded the Gomery Report to the RCMP for further investigation and moved to expel 10 people from the Liberal party.
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"Mr. Justice Gomery determined that the office of the Prime Minister administered the sponsorship program. There is no evidence before him to support that allegation."
— Former pime minister Jean Chrétien said that Judge Gomery made errors and is seeking a review of the report's findings.
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"Our democracy has been gravely harmed. I pledge to you to do everything we can to clean up scandal and restore democracy to its rightful place."
—NDP Leader Jack Layton
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"They no longer have the moral authority to govern."
—Bloc Quebecoios Leader Gilles Duceppe
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"I can't think of any other parliamentary democracy where a scandal of this magnitude and of this nature ... could pass without the fall of the government."
—Conservative Leader Stephen Harper.
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"I have no comment to make on the Gomery report. I have absolutely no idea of what is in the report because I've been in court all morning."
—Jean Pelletier, as he emerged from a Montreal court where he is challenging his firing as Via Rail chairman
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"The government accepts the findings of the Gomery Report."
—Public Works minister Scott Brison
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