The federal sponsorship scandal has extended west to the 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, NDP MP Pat Martin said yesterday. Martin produced documents he says show a $1.7-million gap between what a Liberal-friendly ad firm was paid to promote the federal government during the Games and what it actually spent. Martin's documents indicate the Games received $634,000 from the $2.3 million Compass Communications Inc. was paid through the sponsorship program. Compass is owned by Tony Blom, a Liberal strategist in past elections who is also related to former Nova Scotia Liberal Party president Gerald Blom. The company has become embroiled in the sponsorship scandal after government records showed it received $463,365 in commissions and more than $4.6 million for production costs related to events between 1998 and 2001. Martin called on the RCMP's organized crime division to investigate and said the federal government should give Winnipeggers what is still owed to them. But Treasury Board President Reg Alcock and Blom said Martin had his facts wrong. They said the rest of the $2.3 million, minus commissions, was spent on the Canada Place Pavilion, an exhibition facility built specifically for the Games. "It's not missing money," Alcock said. "It was all accounted for, it's all there." | 
