Gomery Commission Essay

guidelines that were incomplete or purposefully vague contribute to the idea the public service was corrupt to its bones through this program. While most information was kept to the ground, evidence exists (see Gomery Report or Auditor Generals report) that this program was a failure to the Canadian people. There was still complete disregard for the notion of accountability, transparency, ministerial responsibility and responsible government: the very foundations of Canadian law and government. More specifically, the Gomery Commission was able to show through extensive interviewing that senior officials, ministers and public servants were all unable to acknowledge their reasonability in the mismanagement that occurred. This becomes problematic …show more content…
While both scandals occurred under similar strenuous situations politically economically and financially, the impacts both have fostered have been quite different and some more detrimental than others such as the ethical and legal issues associated. While the Pacific scandal was full of bribery and corruption, democracy and the national trust were still present as Macdonald was able to salvage his own career after bowing out following the notion of responsible government. The sponsorship scandal on the other hand, was full of corruption, deceit, no accountability, no transparency and cover-ups. What makes this even worse for Canada is that our foundations have become entrenched with laws and regulations that have been completely violated in turn undermining not only the government of the day, but future political parties and the government in general has become less favourable. Accountability and public trust and major tenants of Canadian democracy and while the pacific scandal did the same things, they were not completely in the frame of politics as they are today, which makes the damage of the sponsorship scandal that much