OTTAWA, August 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Prime Minister Paul Martin announced today the appointment of Liberal insider Francis Fox to the Canadian Senate. The patronage appointment for the Trudeau-era cabinet member comes as little surprise to Canadians despite Fox’s scandal-plagued background. (See the appointment notice: https://pm.gc.ca/eng/news.asp?id=567 )
Fox’s former political career ended in disgrace in January 1978 when he resigned as solicitor general. At the time, Fox confessed to the House of Commons that he had committed fraud. He signed someone else’s name on a hospital document in order to procure an abortion for a woman with whom he was having an adulterous affair. The name he signed was that of the woman’s husband.
Fox has been intimately involved in Martin’s leadership campaigns, and Martin has been looking to reward him for some time. According to political observers, his name surfaced as a possibility to head the CBC until the Gomery report led to questions about Fox’s involvement in the adscam scandal.Â
Proudly right-wing blogger Brent Colbert who has amassed a dossier on the many players in the adscam scandal has this to say about Fox:Âhttps://www.brentcolbert.com/blog/index.php/2005/04/07/francis_fox
But the goods on Fox come not only from conservatives. To wit, the CBC’s roundup of the top ten political scandals in Canadian history lists Fox as entry no. 4.
See the CBC top ten scandals in Canadian political history list:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/background/groupaction/scandals.html
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