The Munsinger Affair was Canada's first national political sex scandal. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A sex scandal is a Scandal involving allegations or information about Embarrassing Sexual activities, such as Adultery, being made public It focused on Gerda Munsinger, an East German prostitute and Soviet spy living in Ottawa who had slept with a number of cabinet ministers in John Diefenbaker's government. Gerda Munsinger (c1926-1998 was an East German Prostitute and Soviet spy who was the centre of the Munsinger Affair political scandal in The German Democratic Republic ( GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR; commonly known in English as East Germany) was a Socialist state Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
Most noted amongst these was the Associate Minister of National Defence, Pierre Sévigny, who had seen her since 1958 and had even signed Munsinger's application for Canadian citizenship. Joseph Pierre Albert Sévigny, PC, OC, CD, VM, ED ( September 12, 1917 &ndash March 20, 2004 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) discovered her background, however, and informed Justice Minister E. Davie Fulton of her activities. The Minister of Justice (Ministre de la Justice is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for the Department of Justice Edmund Davie Fulton PC, OC, LLB, LLD, QC ( March 10, 1916 &ndash May 22, 2000) was She was deported to East Germany in 1961. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The matter was dealt with behind closed doors and Sévigny resigned in 1963. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
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Possible security breach
After the Gouzenko affair, matters of Canadian national security were not usually made subject of public debate. Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko ( January 13, 1919, Rahachow, Soviet Union &ndash June 28, 1982, Mississauga, In 1966, however, the Liberal government came under attack for a security breach involving two Soviet diplomats and George Victor Spencer, a Vancouver mail clerk, who had been caught collecting information for the Soviet Embassy. The Liberal Party of Canada ( Parti libéral du Canada) colloquially known as the Grits (originally " Clear Grits " is a major Canadian political [1] On March 4, John Diefenbaker called Liberal Justice Minister Lucien Cardin "a dwarf in giant's clothing" for his handling of the Spencer case. The Minister of Justice (Ministre de la Justice is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for the Department of Justice Louis Joseph Lucien Cardin ( March 1, 1919 &ndash June 13, 1988) P [2] Cardin rebutted the Tories by bringing up Munsinger's name in the House of Commons. [3] Cardin believed Munsinger was dead, but aimed to criticize Diefenbaker's handling of the case five years earlier.
Munsinger was not dead, however, and was tracked down and interviewed in Munich by Toronto Daily Star reporter Robert Reguly. Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. The Toronto Star is Canada 's highest-circulation newspaper though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario. Robert Reguly, born in Rossport Ontario is a three-time National Newspaper Award-winning journalist [4] She freely admitted her numerous affairs with government officials to the Canadian media. The story dominated the media for weeks and was followed with rapt attention across the country. It became a massive distraction and all but shut down all other parliamentary activity for some weeks.
A Royal Commission was eventually held, and in his report, Supreme Court Justice Wishart Spence criticized the Diefenbaker government's handling of the case but found no criminal wrongdoing or security breach. The term Royal Commission may also be used in the United Kingdom to describe the group of Lords Commissioners who may act in the stead of the The Supreme Court of Canada ( French: Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeal in the Canadian Wishart Flett Spence ( March 9, 1904 &ndash April 16, 1998) C The Spence Report asserted that Munsinger was indeed a minor espionage agent for the KGB. KGB ( Transliteration of "КГБ" is the Russian abbreviation of Committee for State Security ( Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty [2]
Legacy
Possibly in a move to divert attention from the Munsinger affair, Prime Minister Lester Pearson started a public debate on capital punishment, which would be formally abolished in Canada a decade later. The only method used in Canada for Capital punishment was Hanging. [2]
The newsmagazine series This Hour Has Seven Days was one of the major news organizations involved in covering the scandal, and when that series was cancelled by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) just weeks after the Munsinger Affair broke, it was believed by some observers that the show's dogged pursuit of the story had been one of the real reasons for its cancellation. This Hour Has Seven Days was a controversial CBC Television Newsmagazine which ran from 1964 to 1966
Charles Lynch, bureau chief of Southam News, suggested Munsinger affair might change Canada's "dull and unexciting" image, and promote the upcoming Expo '67. Canwest News Service is a national news agency with correspondents in Canada Europe Asia and the United States and is part of the Canadian Newspaper chain owned The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or Expo 67 as it was commonly known was the World's Fair held in Montreal, Canada from April 27 to October [2]
References
- ^ RMCP, Canadian Encylopedia
- ^ a b c d CBC Archives: Politics, Sex, and Gerda Munsinger
- ^ He accidentally mispronounced her name as "Munsignor," but it was clear to whom he was referring. CBC Archives: Politics, Sex, and Gerda Munsinger
- ^ Reguly was awarded the National Newspaper Award for his work on the story that year.
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