And now the scot with the temper that's hot,
it's Jock McBile with Get Stuffed!
Tonight, it's gonna be a history lesson,
the saga of Jean Chretien, the litte guy from Shawinigan.
A man disgraced by Dalton Camp is looking like a driver of a getaway car.
Now let's see what he got away with
February '94 - a $4.5 million federal grand to
boost tourism. You'll never guess where!
Shawinigan!
Forget Florida!
Forget California!
Forget Mexico!
Canadians were going to flop to tourist Mekka of Western Hemisphere, Shawinigan.
But to see what Chretien had thought of that
adding federal cash to that for local companies
to create a theme park showcasing the industrial
history of Shawinigan.
How did we, as a country, missed out on a vital
need for such a place?
On this basis, why not give somebody
a theme park on a wonderful world
of sulphur dioxide?
Then you ask why Shawinigan?
JEAN CHRETIEN: "I will help them as much as I can"
"because it's my job as a Member of Parliament"
"to help my constituents."
Hey, right, right, okay.
December '96 - on a televised town hall meeting
Chretien tells the woman question that
he hadn't promised to scrap the GST.
The woman said he had!
CHRETIEN: "The commitment we've made public is we want to get rid of the GST."
"Our objective is very clear that the GST will be replaced."
"If the GST is not gone, I will have a tough time in the election after that."
Are you, are you sure you're gonna get rid of the GST, Jean?
CHRETIEN: "It's a specific promise I'm making very clear"
"It's going. It's gone."
How would he express that he wasn't going to make it clear, I wonder?
Now the question is have we got a fork-tongued festival going on here?
Or some of us were getting forked?
March '99 - a federal grant of $164,000 to a former business associate
of Chretien's. What he want to aim is to buy a
Shawinigan hotel partly owned by Chretien before
he was coming for power.
And the same guy got $800,000 to improve the hotel he bought.
There had to be a reason!
JEAN CHRETIEN: "I will help them as much as I can"
"because it's my job as a Member of Parliament"
"to help my constituents."