Uneasy lies the Crown that wears the head

PM to punish 3 Crown heads

OTTAWA - Paul Martin is to announce tomorrow that he will either fire outright or suspend with pay the heads of at least three Crown corporations implicated in the $100-million sponsorship scandal, CanWest News has learned. The Prime Minister spent the weekend talking to the Treasury Board president, Reg Alcock, and senior advisors about the future of senior Crown corporation executives identified in the Auditor-General's damning report on the government's sponsorship program. Among those discussed were VIA Rail chairman Jean Pelletier, Canada Post chairman Andre Ouellet and Michel Vennat, president of the Business Development Bank of Canada.

The "$100-million sponsorship scandal"? That's a mouthful. The Ottawa Sun cuts to the chase: NAMING KEY PLAYERS: ALCOCK'S ADSCAM REPORT ON THE WAY