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Give It Up Already!

This morning I almost feel sorry for Paul Martin because he has officially made himself the most pathetic Prime Minister we have ever had. Now matter what you think of Jean Chretien, he certainly wasn't pathetic. He was a crook and a thug but he never sunk to the lows that Paul Martin has.

To go on TV and beg for your own sorry ass is beneath a Prime Minister, or at least it should be. Regardless, Martin is history. This is his and Chretien's legacy and saner minds within the Liberal Party (if there are any) will try to distance themselves from this mess the first chance they get.

So on to better news, it seems that Paul Martin's story is getting weaker by the day:
While Paul Martin insists he isn't close to Claude Boulay, one of the ad executives embroiled in the sponsorship scandal, Mr. Boulay testified yesterday that he met Mr. Martin at least twice a week when he worked on the politician's election campaign in 1993.

Mr. Boulay's wife, Diane Deslauriers, went further. She testified that she saw Mr. Martin daily during that campaign. “At the end, you realize [those campaigning] were a family for 35, 40 days,” she said, adding that Mr. Martin went to her home at the end of the campaign for brunch with a dozen volunteers.

The couple took turns testifying before Mr. Justice John Gomery's inquiry into the federal sponsorship program.

The inquiry also heard an implication yesterday that Mr. Boulay tried to influence the testimony of another witness to hide an alleged secret payment of $50,000 to Jean Charest's Quebec provincial Liberals.

The alleged illicit payoff to Mr. Charest is one of a string of damning allegations of kickbacks, false invoicing and other irregularities the inquiry has been told.

Mr. Boulay's firm, Groupe Everest, received $67-million in federal sponsorship contracts but Mr. Boulay denies he got favours because of his Liberal contacts.

With the scandal threatening his minority government, Mr. Martin has distanced himself from Mr. Boulay and Ms. Deslauriers. “I don't know them well,” Mr. Martin told the inquiry in February. “I don't recall them,” he said when asked whether he had any contact with them from 1990 to 1994.
Now I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure I'ld remember someone if I 'met' with them twice a week for several months.

Wonderful stuff indeed.

You've got to give credit to Paul Martin for one thing though: he's made being a conservative in Canada fun again!

5 comments:

Mitch said...

This is starting to remind me of the television series "the newsroom" when Ken Finklestein's character is running as a Liberal for the Ontario Legislature and all these allegations of him having an affair and a love child pop up. How ironic!

Looney Canuck said...

Actually, Jean Chretien has been reduced to begging. It happened just before the 1995 referendum on seperation and was done in French for people to vote "non" on seperation, so it probably was not heard much less talked about in English Canada.

That sort of thing, begging, pleading, and bribing Quebec has been going on for decades, and does not slow down seperatism, only fuels the fire. What we need is a prime minister to finally start playing hardball with seperatists, wherever they are, and basically say "You can't do that!" I really don't think that Paul Martin is that man. I think that Harper is though, and I'm tempted to vote for him just for that reason.

Anonymous said...

"Mr. Boulay testified yesterday that he met Mr. Martin at least twice a week when he worked on the politician's election campaign in 1993."

"Mr. Boulay's wife, Diane Deslauriers, went further. She testified that she saw Mr. Martin daily during that campaign."

Dana,

Seriously, the point you miss is that they never ever met for lunch-not even once.


Sincerely,
Scott Brison

Posted by Terry Gain

Vox Poplar said...

You could call an election with the Liberals under the Natural Law Party in the Polls and they'll still win Ontario.

Why?

All they have to do is scream 'hidden agenda!' and the Liberal dominated media will play it as gospel and Ontario will believe it.

Ontario voters love the status quo, no matter how crappy and corrupt it is, because it leaves them on top.

Sheesh... now I'm cranking like an old goat.

Tawcan said...

Got to love how the Liberals can still win the election when half of the countries vote against them...