A Quebec-based scouting group says it received only $250,000 from the federal sponsorship program to put on a millennium jamboree, though the Public Works website lists the association as receiving $600,000.

L'Association des Scouts du Canada doesn't know anything about the missing $350,000, says its director, Robert Nowlan.

"We asked for $250,000 and we received $250,000," he said.

L'Association des Scouts du Canada millennium jamboree badge

The francophone scouting association's money for the 2000 "Jam des neiges" was passed through Groupaction Gosselin Strategic Communications, one of the Liberal-friendly ad agencies at the centre of the still-unravelling sponsorship program fiasco.

The $250,000 helped the group pull off its turn-of-the-millennium jamboree for boy and girl scouts on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City between Dec. 27, 1999, and Jan. 5, 2000.

Canada has two national scouting organizations, Scouts Canada and L'Association des Scouts du Canada. They are separate organizations.

Officials from Public Works were not available for comment.

The case joins 720 other files that will come under scrutiny as special counsel André Gauthier seeks to recover sponsorship funds misspent between 1997 and 2001.

The program was designed to raise the federal government's profile in Quebec after sovereignty forces were narrowly defeated in the 1995 referendum.

Auditor General Sheila Fraser discovered that $100 million from the $250 million program went to Liberal-friendly Quebec ad firms, mostly for just passing on cheques to community groups and Crown agencies.