Business leader Jon Grant blew the whistle on corruption in the Chrétien government

When the astute corporate director, environmental champion and philanthropist Jon Grant, who had led the prosperous Quaker Oats company in Peterborough, Ont., for two decades, accepted the chairmanship of the Canada Lands Company, he never anticipated he would be splashed across the front page of The Globe and Mail a few years later as a whistle-blower exposing political corruption in the Liberal government of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien so serious that a cabinet minister was fired.Canada Lands Co. was a newly created Crown corporation set up in 1995 to dispose of surplus federal lands.