Summary of Recoveries

July 2011

The Government of Canada has recovered through out-of-courts settlements and other remittances $6.8M of sponsorship funds that were improperly received. The following table provides the details:

Name of Organization and/or Individual	Date (year/month/day)	Amount $	Comments
Paul Coffin and 2794101 Canada Inc. (doing business under the name Communication Coffin)	2005-08-11	$1,590,184	Settlement Agreement 2005-08-11
Publicité Martin Inc. (current owners: Groupe OSL Inc.)	2005-09-02	$50,000	Settlement Agreement 2005-09-02
Liberal Party of Canada	2005-11-01	$1,142,818	Voluntary remittance
Draft Inc. and Média I.D.A. Vision Inc.	2006-09-07	$1,057,155	Settlement Agreement 2006-09-07
Claude Boulay and Sensas (G.E.C.M.) Inc., Everest Estrie Publicité (G.E.C.M.) Inc., Everest Commandites (G.E.C.M.) Inc., Everest Publicité Promotions (G.E.C.M.) Inc., Gestion Opération Tibet Inc.	2007-06-11	$1,000,000	Settlement Agreement 2007-06-11
Jean Brault, Groupaction Marketing Inc., Gosselin relations publiques Inc., CPPC - Centre de placement de professionnels en communication Inc., Alléluia Design Inc., and Groupaxion Nouveaux médias Inc.	2008-01-31	$250,000 + $1,006,699 of damages payment avoided	Settlement Agreement 2008-01-31 Includes withdrawal of 4 lawsuits against Government of Canada (GoC)
Éric Lafleur and Publicité Dézert Inc.	2008-04-01	$152,808	Settlement Agreement 2008-04-01 Includes payment schedule
Jean Lafleur	on-going	$248,512	Court Order 2007-06-27
Jean Lafleur Communications Marketing Inc.	2009-05-08	$183,180	Court Order 2009-05-08
Benoit Renaud and Communication Art Tellier Inc.	2009-10-07	$50,000	Settlement Agreement 2009-10-07
Gilles André Gosselin and Gosselin Communications Stratégiques Inc.	2009-11-30	$0	Settlement Agreement 2009-11-30
Andrée Côté-Gosselin and Nicolas Gosselin	2012-04-02	$70,000	Settlement Agreement 2012-04-02