Got all your ducks in a row, Mr. Martin?

from the CBC and the Gomery report:

• There was political interference in the awarding contracts in the Sponsorship Program.
• The Prime Minister's Office, via Jean Pelletier, and then-minister of public works, Alfonso Gagliano, directed the awarding of contracts through the Sponsorship Program – bypassing normal departmental oversight.
• Jean Chrétien holds personal responsibility for the actions for Jean Pelletier, his long-time chief of staff, because he was employed as a political aide.
• Pelletier acted as an un-elected "minister" in implementing the Sponsorship Program.
• Pelletier failed to take even "the most elementary precautions against mismanagement" of the disbursement of the millions of dollars in the Sponsorship Program.
• Chuck Guité, the former bureaucrat who administered the Sponsorship Program, operated outside the normal structures of government accountability, reporting directly to Pelletier and Gagliano, and not to the departmental Deputy Minister Ranald Quail.
• Gomery called Guité "untouchable," because of the direct involvement of Pelletier, Chrétien's chief of staff.
• Guité rewarded friends and Liberal-friendly ad firms.
• Paul Martin, finance minister at the time, is exonerated "from any blame for carelessness or misconduct." [Ed. HAH!]
• Gomery found that there was a kickback scheme. Jacques Corriveau, a close friend of Chrétien who owned a graphic design company, was "the central figure in an elaborate kickback scheme by which he enriched himself personally and provided funds and benefits to the [Quebec wing of the Liberal Party of Canada]."
• Gomery infers that Gagliano must have known about the kickback scheme, but didn't find any evidence directly proving that inference. Gomery doesn't draw any connection between these kickbacks and the Prime Minister's Office.
• However, although they didn't know about the kickbacks, Gomery says that Chrétien and Pelletier can be held responsible because the program was not set up with the proper oversight.

You'd better duck, Mr. Martin. Quack.