The Cast of Gomery - with the growing amount of testimony, I have started this list, which I will add to regularly as I find/confirm more testimony.

Myriam Bédard - Canadian Gold Medal Biathlete and Via Rail employee
     - Has testified that the sponsorship fund was used to pay race car driver Jacques Villeneuve $12 million to wear a Canadian logo.
     - Has testified that Jean LeFrancois, the ex president of Via Rail, was involved in drug traficking.
     - Has testified that Nima Mazhari, her signficant other, persuaded then prime minister Jean Chretien not to join the US led Iraq invasion.
     - Has testified that she was let go from her job at Via in 2004 for questioning Groupaction contract expenses.

Michel Beliveau - Former President of the Liberal Party's Quebec wing
     - Has testified that he asked, then PM Jean Chretiens close friend, Jacques Corriveau to give the Quebec wing of the party $300,000 in April 1997.
     - Has testified that if there was anyone who would be sleeping between Jean and Aline Chretien in bed, it would be Jacques Corriveau, alluding to how close the PM was with Monsieur Corriveau.
     - Has testified that he took money, directly, from Corriveau in the $75K to $100K range and that the rest were funneled to the Quebec branch of the Liberal party via a third party
     - Has testified most of the $300,000 was for Bloc controlled ridings in Quebec

Don Boudria - Long time government employee and MP for Cumberland, Ontarion.
     - Boudria was the Public Works Minister after Alfonso Gagliano moved to his roll as ambassador to Denmark. Boudria was removed from this position 5 months later after staying at a chalet owned by Groupe Everests owner

Jean Brault - President/Founder of Group Action, a Liberal friendly ad firm implicated in Adscam
     - Is under indictment for 6 counts of fraud for just under $2M.
     - Is named in a $41 Million lawsuit filed by the Canadian Government to recoup some of the money awarded
     - Has testified that he paid Jacques Corriveau $430,000 for a fake consulting contract
     - Has testified that he was coerced to hire Serge Gosselin, at a salary of $84,000 to perform campaign work.
     - Has testified that Jacques Corriveau and Benoit Corbeil as the two who most frequently had him give them cash for "the cause" and that the price of not supporting "the cause" was the loss of sponsorship contracts. (i.e. government advertising dollars)
     - Has testified that he understood "the cause" to be the Liberal Party of Canada.

Paul Coffin - President of Coffin Communications, an ad firm friendly to the party in power.
     - Is under indictment for 18 counts of fraud for invoicing the government for ~$2Million
     - Has testified that his close relationship with Chuck Guité kept federal contracts going to Coffin Communications
     - Communication Coffin donated approximately $24,000 dollars to the Liberal party between 1999 and 2001.
     - Claims Communication Coffin was supposed to prepare and draft post-mortem reports, billing the federal government for hundreds of hours of time for preparation of those documents.
     - Communication Coffin has provided the pertinent contract documents, but a government spokesman says the reports are not in government files.

Benoit Corbeil - Former Director General of the Liberal Party in Quebec. i.e. The Big Kahuna in Quebec for the Liberal Party.
     -Has openly stated he was under the direct supervision of then Public Works Minister, Alfonso Gagliano.
     -First Liberal official to state funds from the Sponsorship Program were diverted back to senior Liberal Party officials.
     -Quote From an open interview - “I took the bills [from Mr. Brault] and with that, I paid people, without declaring it [to Elections Canada].”
     -Has stated in open interview that the cash payments went to Liberal supporters who took unpaid leave from their government jobs to work on the Liberal election campaign.
     - Has testified now that he took the $5,000 cash in an envelope from Jean Brault.
     - Has testified that Michel Beliveau was present at this meeting
     - Has testified that $5,000 was diverted to the riding of Denis Coderre, past Minister in Chretien’s Government and, currently a backbencher for Paul Martin from the riding of Bourassa.
     - Has testified that a $4,000 cash payment ended up in the riding of Yvon Charbonneau for the 2000 election. Charbonneau did not run for re-election in 2003.
     - Has testified that $50,000 came from Brault and the balance from a Brault associate, Bernard Thiboutot, of the Ad firm Commando Communications.
     - Has testified that he was pointed to Jean Brault by Jean-Marc Bard, the Chief of Staff for Alfonso Gagliano, the Public Works Minister at the time.

Jacques Corriveau - Close friend of Jean Chretien and head of Pluri Design, a firm which earned $7M from sponsorship subcontracts.
     - Worked on the 1984 and 1990 leadership campaigns for the Liberal party
     - Serge Gosselin received $60,900 in "professional honourariums" between October 1999 and May 2001 from Corriveau's Pluri Design.
     - Group Polygone awarded Pluri Design Millions of dollars in subcontracts for little or no work.

Jean Chretien - Politician for 40 years, Prime Minister from 1993 to 2004. Currently retired from politics.
     - Has testified that he has nice balls.

David Dingwall - 17 year career politician (1980 to 1997) appointed the CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint in 2003
     - Dingwall was the Public Works Minister for 2+ years in the 1990's. Huge reforms in the sponsorship program were brought into place under his watch.

Sheila Fraser - Hard Hitting, No Bullshit, Auditor General of Canada who took over from her former boss Denis Desautels in May of 2001.
     - "From 1997 until 31 August 2001, the federal government ran the Sponsorship Program in a way that showed little regard for Parliament, the Financial Administration Act, contracting rules and regulations, transparency, and value for money."
     - Fraser has been instrumental in releasing continuous reports on the waste and scandal of finances within the Canadian Government.
     - In my mind, Fraser is the key behind cleaning up politics. I have always held the view that if we spent more money on accountants tracking every government spent receipt, and less on politicians looking for ways to spend our money, we would have an incredibly powerful country with money for everyone, no poverty or homelessness and a well protected and funded military to protect our greatness. Sheila Fraser and her office need more money to expand the revelations they are bringing to the public eye.


Alfonso Gagliano - Minister of Public Works department at time of the scandal. Moved to a role as Ambassador, which he was promptly recalled from and fired from once the Adscam Scandal was brought to light.
     - Gagliano was born in Sicily in the early 40's where he lived until 1958 when he immigrated to Montreal.
     - Firmly denies allegations made by Chuck Guité (see below)
     - Gagliano was removed from Cabinet and posted at his role as ambassador to Denmark after Adscam first broke out. This move was made by then prime minister Jean Chretien
     - When Paul Martin stepped into the role of PM, he promptly recalled Gagliano from his duty and dismissed him.
     - Gagliano is now suing the government for more than $4.5M.

Ralph Goodale - Long time politician who first joined House of Commons in 1974 and returned in 1993.
     -Has held numerous posts from Head of Sascatchewan Liberal Party, Minister of Natural Resources, Minister of Public Works and is currently the Minister of Finance
     - Goodale has steped in and put a freeze on federal sponsorship contracts, and has changed the structure to let public servants handle the budget instead of external contractors which is a huge step towards fixing the problem.

Justice John H. Gomery - Longtime lawyer and Quebec Supreme Court Justice.
     - Gomery was appointed under the Inquiries Act, which gives him quite a bit of authority over who is called and when to the commission.
     - President of the Copyright Board of Canada since 1999.
     - Named Queen's Counsel in 1972 and appointed to Quebec Superior Court in 1982.
     - Gomery has done an incredible job of expediting testimony in an appropriate fitting manner. His control of the gavel has been a pleasure to watch and his commentary and clarifications actually make the law interesting to watch.

Serge Gosselin - was an aide to the unity minister, Stephane Dion, and a graphic designer
     - Has been paid by both Group Action (Jean Brault's firm) and Pluri Design (Corriveau's firm), for primarily Liberal oriented advertising programs.
     - Has testified that he was very surprised to find billing for his services were not passed on to the provincial branch of the Liberal party. i.e. He assumes his work was so Liberal Party oriented, he is surprised anyone else was the eventual beneficiary of his services.

Chuck Guité - "The Gagliano Guillotine" - Employee of the Public Works department who held the purse strings of the sponsorship contracts from 1996 to1999. He reported to Alfonso Gagliano, the Minister of Public Works.
     - Sheila Fraser said Guité broke "just about every rule in the book" when he worked in the Public Works department.
     - Is under indictment for Fraud
     - Has testified that Alfonso Gagliano (Public Works Minister) and Jean Pelletier, Chief of Staff to then PM, Jean Chretien, as the two who had the final say on major projects, and that they were well aware of how Guité was distributing the sponsorship money in the mid 1990's. To this matter, Guité testified "If I had to make the decision on who got what, the list would have been quite different." directly implying he needed approval from higher up the food chain.

Marc LeFrancois - Former President and CEO of Via Rail.
     - LeFrancois was directly named in the Auditor Generals report with regards to the deal that saw Via Rail sponsor a Canadian Hockey series about Maurice "the Rocket" Richard. Via had, originally, declined the offer to advertise in the series, but after the Public Works Ministry offered to reimburse them via federal budget money, they ponied up almost $1 Million. LeFrancois says they got their money's worth in advertising, even without the reimbursement, in an effort to justify not having any records showing that Via put due diligence into looking into the value of this advertising.

Of Note: This series was run on the CBC, who received the advertising dollars.

Paul Martin - MP since 1988 for LaSalle-Emard, Finance Minister 1996 to 2002. Became Liberal Party leader and hence, Prime Minister, in 2004. Confirmed via minority government in a late 2004 election.
     - Has testified that he never took part in any sponsorship or advertising campaign expenditures within or without the Public Works Department.

Tony Mignacca - Friend and close aide to Alfonso Gagliano. He co-ordinated the annual golf tourney held by Gagliano. Began working in Gagliano's riding office in early 2001.
     - Jon Grant, former President of Canada Lands Co. has stated Gagliano put pressure on him to hire friends, including Mignacca. An allegation Gagliano emphatically denies.

Guiseppe "Joe" Morselli - the "real boss" behind the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party of Canada. Born in North East Italy, where he says no mob related groups arise from.
     - Has testified that he took $5,000 from Jean Brault's secretary but denies the claims by Brault that he was involved in the $1.7 Million funneled to the Liberals. The intended recipient of this envelope was Benoit Corbeil.
     - Has testified that the comments about "declaring war" on Daniel Dezainde were with regards to Dezainde's racial slurs.
     - He made it a point to note he had no links to the mob as Quebec media suggests.