Summary of a group of selected advertising contracts reviewed by Kroll- Of $46.32-million in total expenditures, 1% went toward sponsorship payments

"From these figures, it's clear that large contracts were being bestowed upon advertising firms with virtually no accountability on the companies' part. This reflects badly on everyone -- the ad executives who were so cavalier with public funds, the bureaucrats under whose oversight all this should have fallen, and of course the politicians with whom the buck should ultimately have stopped, especially considering the Liberal ties to the firms in question."