Canadian political scandals - Definition and Overview

This is a list of major political scandals in Canada:

• King-Byng Affair - 1926 Canadian constitutional crisis
• Munsinger Affair - Canada's first national political sex scandal (1960s)
• Airbus affair

• Alberta
  • Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act - a 1928 law that resulted in close to 3,000 young people being classified as "mentally unfit" and without their knowledge or consent were sterilized to prevent them from breeding their "bad blood."
  • Premier John E. Brownlee - sued for seduction of a young woman and found guilty (early 1930s)
  • Dar Heatherington - forced to resign from Lethbridge city council in 2004 after being convicted of public mischief.
• British Columbia
• Pacific scandal - allegations of bribes being taken by the government of Sir John A. Macdonald (1870s)
  • Bingogate - New Democratic Party - skimming of charity funds (1990s)
  • FastCat Fiasco - 1990s construction of a fleet of high speed ferry vessels
• New Brunswick
  • Karl Toft - serial pedophile molested over 200 boys while an employee in charge at the government run Kingsclear Youth Training Centre
  • Tunagate - tainted tuna (1985)
• Ontario
  • Ontario Bond Scandal - United Farmers of Ontario (early 1920s)
• Quebec
  • Duplessis Orphans of 1940s through 1960s - Maurice Duplessis government and the Roman Catholic Church
  • 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal - Liberal Party of Canada - misuse and misdirection of funds

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