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And now the scot with the temper that's hot,

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it's Jock McBile with Get Stuffed!

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Tonight, it's gonna be a history lesson,

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the saga of Jean Chretien, the litte guy from Shawinigan.

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A man disgraced by Dalton Camp is looking like a driver of a getaway car.

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Now let's see what he got away with

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February '94 - a $4.5 million federal grand to

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boost tourism. You'll never guess where!

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Shawinigan!

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Forget Florida!

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Forget California!

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Forget Mexico!

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Canadians were going to flop to tourist Mekka of Western Hemisphere, Shawinigan.

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But to see what Chretien had thought of that

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adding federal cash to that for local companies

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to create a theme park showcasing the industrial

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history of Shawinigan.

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How did we, as a country, missed out on a vital

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need for such a place?

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On this basis, why not give somebody

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a theme park on a wonderful world

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of sulphur dioxide?

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Then you ask why Shawinigan?

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JEAN CHRETIEN: "I will help them as much as I can"

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"because it's my job as a Member of Parliament"

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"to help my constituents."

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Hey, right, right, okay.

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December '96 - on a televised town hall meeting

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Chretien tells the woman question that

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he hadn't promised to scrap the GST.

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The woman said he had!

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CHRETIEN: "The commitment we've made public is we want to get rid of the GST."

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"Our objective is very clear that the GST will be replaced."

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"If the GST is not gone, I will have a tough time in the election after that."

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Are you, are you sure you're gonna get rid of the GST, Jean?

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CHRETIEN: "It's a specific promise I'm making very clear"

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"It's going. It's gone."

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How would he express that he wasn't going to make it clear, I wonder?

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Now the question is have we got a fork-tongued festival going on here?

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Or some of us were getting forked?

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March '99 - a federal grant of $164,000 to a former business associate

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of Chretien's. What he want to aim is to buy a

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Shawinigan hotel partly owned by Chretien before

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he was coming for power.

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And the same guy got $800,000 to improve the hotel he bought.

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There had to be a reason!

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JEAN CHRETIEN: "I will help them as much as I can"

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"because it's my job as a Member of Parliament"

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"to help my constituents."