The Beauharnois scandal was a Canadian political scandal around 1930. The Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Company had given $700,000 to the ruling Liberal Party of Canada in the run-up to the 1930 federal election in exchange for the right to change the flow of the St. Lawrence River through building a hydroelectric power station. The scandal "tainted" the reputation of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, although it was not discovered until the year after he had lost the election. Later commentators have suggested it was the "most famous" example of political bribery in the decade.
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- Scandale de la Beauharnois (fr)
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| - The Beauharnois scandal was a Canadian political scandal around 1930. The Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Company had given $700,000 to the ruling Liberal Party of Canada in the run-up to the 1930 federal election in exchange for the right to change the flow of the St. Lawrence River through building a hydroelectric power station. The scandal "tainted" the reputation of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, although it was not discovered until the year after he had lost the election. Later commentators have suggested it was the "most famous" example of political bribery in the decade. (en)
- Le scandale de la Beauharnois est un scandale politico-financier canadien impliquant la Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Co., L'entreprise a fait don de 700 000 dollars au Parti libéral du Québec et au Parti libéral du Canada afin d'obtenir le droit de dériver les eaux du fleuve Saint-Laurent pour y construire la centrale de Beauharnois, en Montérégie. L'affaire, qui a fait grand bruit, a contribué à la défaite du gouvernement libéral de William Lyon Mackenzie King, qui est remplacé par le conservateur Richard Bedford Bennett à l'élection fédérale de 1930. Le nouveau gouvernement conservateur fit instituer deux commissions d'enquête, à la Chambre des communes et au Sénat canadien. (fr)
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| - The Beauharnois scandal was a Canadian political scandal around 1930. The Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Company had given $700,000 to the ruling Liberal Party of Canada in the run-up to the 1930 federal election in exchange for the right to change the flow of the St. Lawrence River through building a hydroelectric power station. The scandal "tainted" the reputation of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, although it was not discovered until the year after he had lost the election. Later commentators have suggested it was the "most famous" example of political bribery in the decade. (en)
- Le scandale de la Beauharnois est un scandale politico-financier canadien impliquant la Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Co., L'entreprise a fait don de 700 000 dollars au Parti libéral du Québec et au Parti libéral du Canada afin d'obtenir le droit de dériver les eaux du fleuve Saint-Laurent pour y construire la centrale de Beauharnois, en Montérégie. L'affaire, qui a fait grand bruit, a contribué à la défaite du gouvernement libéral de William Lyon Mackenzie King, qui est remplacé par le conservateur Richard Bedford Bennett à l'élection fédérale de 1930. Le nouveau gouvernement conservateur fit instituer deux commissions d'enquête, à la Chambre des communes et au Sénat canadien. (fr)
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