Posted AT 2:05 PM EST on 16/05/05
'Canadians expect better' from ad deals, Fraser says
Montreal — Federal advertising activities worth $800-million were fraught with “major problems,” and taxpayers deserve better for their money, Auditor-General Sheila Fraser told the Gomery inquiry Monday.
The financial watchdog, whose scathing 2002 report led to the inquiry's creation by Prime Minister Paul Martin, said her team uncovered a litany of irregularities in advertising bidding and management from 1998 to 2003.
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