The Globe and Mail: The deadly tainted-blood scandal is more shameful than Adscam "The combination of bureaucratic bungling, lax regulation, short-sighted politicking and penny-pinching, corporate greed and outright misrepresentation has been costly, not only in dollars but in lives." The actions of the Canada Development Corporation cost taxpayers millions of dollars and wasted thousands of liters of donated blood. To make up for this shortfall blood was purchased from US prisons. Paul Martin was a board member when some of these decisions were made.