Les Lafleurs

- Ooo?

- Jean Lafleur! Eric Lafleur!

- Connais pas! Est-ce que c'est les gars qui ont invent� les Michigans?!

If you never have heard of Jean and Eric Lafleur, you will tomorrow and thereafter. Jean is scheduled to appear before the Gomery Commission tomorrow.

The Globe reminds us that "The inquiry has already heard about the vast business dealings between Mr. [Jean] Lafleur and the federal government: $37-million from 1995 to 2001, plus millions more from Crown corporations such as Canada Post and Via Rail. (In one case, Eric drove a federal cheque from Ottawa to Montreal, earning a $100,000 commission for Lafleur Communication Marketing.)"

Also, Lafleur's company is the one that earned the now infamous $8,200 commission for the neckties bought by the PMO.

In the Ottawa Sun we read today:

ONE OF the key ad executives at the centre of the sponsorship scandal was paid more than $15 million in expenses over four years by the federal government, the Sun has learned. Jean Lafleur and his company, Lafleur Communications, earned the millions between 1998 and 2002, documents obtained under Access to Information that detail additional cash the feds paid out to Lafleur.

Let the Games begin...