federalelection:backitup

I thought I would endeavour to cover the upcoming Canadian Federal Elction as best as possible (feel free to chip in on my mistakes and omitances).

So to understand the upcoming election you sort of have to know what has been happening in the last year.
In Canada, there are three main political parties: The Conservatives (right), The Liberals (central-left?) and The NDP (lefty-left-but-definetely-not-communist). *Disclaimer* These are my own observations.

Last year a scandal erupted know as "Adscam" and "Sponsorgate" involving the ruling Liberal party.
Certain Liberal Party members alledgedly including former Prime Minister Jean Chretien had been involved in the embezzlement of public funds in the province of Quebec.

Without going into the details, it sort of involved The Liberal Party paying large amounts of cash to advertising firms that were politically allied to them with little to no services rendered in return for the public money. (And subsequent kickbacks).

Prime Minister Paul Martin ordered an inquiry into the scandal earlier this year (and has thus far been absolved of any wrongdoing - sort of ironic considering that he was the Finance Minister at the time of the alleged laundering) that was carried out by a guy called Mr Gomery.

And thus we have the Gomery Report.

More to come.