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MONTREAL - A former high-ranking Liberal who yesterday offered more evidence of sponsorship cash being diverted to the governing party said Alfonso Gagliano called him three weeks ago and warned him not to come clean with the Gomery inquiry. Benoit Corbeil, director-general of the federal Liberals' Quebec wing from 1998-2001, testified that Mr. Gagliano, the former public works minister, told him ''people would come out against him'' if he implicated the Liberals in the sponsorship scandal. Mr. Corbeil said he phoned Mr. Gagliano at his home after receiving a message on his cellphone. He said during the three- or-four-minute conversation,...

Breakup of Canada inevitable: Gagliano (click "Don" Alfonso's surname above to set appropriate "flavor") NATIONAL POST Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Canadian Press CREDIT: Dave Sidaway, The Montreal Gazette Alfonso Gagliano, onetime public works minister and former ambassador to Denmark. Former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano said Monday that Prime Minister Paul Martin has taken Canada and the federal Liberal party down the road to ruin. "He's going to destroy the party and break up the country,'' Gagliano said during an interview with Radio-Canada, the French-language network of the CBC. He said Quebec sovereignty is inevitable after the revelations at...

By Canadian Press The Liberals lost strongholds in Newfoundland and Ontario Monday in a string of seven byelections that also saw Canadian Alliance chief Stephen Harper win the seat he needed to become Opposition leader. Harper cruised to an easy win in Calgary Southwest in a race where the Liberals and Tories opted not to run candidates. "You have taken the overwhelming vote that this party got in the last election in this riding and you have taken it higher," Harper told cheering supporters. "Notwithstanding the decayed state of our parliamentary institutions, it is still an honour to represent people...