Why the Liberals collapsed in Quebec
Liberals (and others) will go to their graves arguing about the wisdom of creating the Gomery inquiry. The Martinite and Chrétien wings of the party disagreed from the beginning about how to handle Auditor-General Sheila Fraser's report into the sponsorship program. The Chrétienites wanted the whole affair played down. They argued that it wasn't all that important, that the money that had gone astray was small, ...