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stouffville suntribune thursday nov 10 2005 19 staff photomike barrett markham conservative candidate joe li talks with the fed eral partys deputy leader peter mackay during a fundrais- ing event tuesday mackay ties martin to corruption scandal by simone joseph staff writer the liberal sponsorship scandal and david dingwalls resignation were easy targets at a conservative fundraiser featuring deputy leader peter mackay and markham candidate joe li tuesday night paul martin would have you believe he never met jean chretien mr mackay said to laughter from the par tisan crowd mr mackay pointed out the gomery report on the scandal only exonerated prime minister martin from having run the program it did not exonerate him of having any involvement or knowledge of the corruption he was either willfully blind or not doing his job mr mackay said mr martin was finance minister when liberal politi cians awarded sponsorship contracts to advertising agencies that had con tributed to their campaign mr chretien was impli cated in the gomery report which said he is accountable for corruption in the spon sorship scandal joe li who plans to run as the federal conservative candidate for markham- unionville in the coming election began his speech with an attack on another sensitive liberal topic david dingwalls resignation from the royal canadian mint and plans to pay him severance mr dingwall quit as pres ident of the mint infamously saying he was entitled to my entitlements when it comes to severance pay ordinary hardworking canadians like you will never accept revenue minister john mccallums version of entitlement to give 500000 to david dingwalls voluntary resignation mr mackay and mr lis speeches were followed by a question and answer period in the century palace restaurant in the warden and steeles area of course the question on everybodys minds was how soon will canadians face an election the prime minister has said he will call an election after the final gomery report has been released expected to be middecember but there have been rumblings the opposition parties will join forces to oust the minority govern ment sooner this liberal government is hanging on the cliffs edge mr mackay said but he pointed out mr martin and mr layton are still talking and without the ndps assistance a noncon fidence vote cannot be assured it wont happen without a clear commitment from the ndp mr mackay said a nonconfidence vote takes place when the govern ment does not have enough votes in the house of commons to pass a bill such a vote is normally fol lowed by an election mr li was asked what he would do differently in the looming election after losing the riding to mr mccallum in 2004 he said he will continue to spend more time getting to know voters and will ben efit from his work in the last campaign im more experienced now and know how to take tough questions last time i sounded like the new kid on the block a safer community is your call cash rewards for anonymous tips on 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