The Sponsorship Program and the Gomery Inquiry

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This paper discusses the Gomery Inquiry, an investigation into illicit misuse of public funds which had been allocated by the Liberal Government, under Prime Minister Jeanne Chretien, to promote national unity and federal visibility in Quebec. The paper further explains that the objective of this program, initially referred to as the Sponsorship Program, was to combat Quebec separatism by raising the federal profile in the province in the wake of the narrow federalist victory in the 1995 sovereignty referendum. The paper also discusses why the Sponsorship Program eventually became known as the Sponsorship Scandal.

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