This really bothers me.Stephen Dion wants the scope of the inquiry to look into Harpers role... which I can't see how it has anything to do with it
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This is just standard Opposition rhetoric. You see a problem you call for an inquiry most of the time hoping the government doesn't actually call one and make you look like a fool when nothing is proven.
Does Dion have anything useful on Harper with the letters? Most likely not. But Harper was in the same boat when he started calling for an inquiry into the sponsorship scandal; it wasn't until things started coming to light that the real guns came out. Not saying this is anything like that at all but I wouldn't have expected anything more or less from the Opposition regardless of the leader or the party holding the title.
Sponsorship... not at all the same. The A-G had called for action... really I don't even want to discuss it. The Ad-Scam thing, Gomery, Martin's terms of reference... the whole thing pisses me off. I won't be satisfied until the Liberal Party pays back everything they stole or goes bankrupt in trying.
I have no problem in Dion calling for an inquiry (although I don't think a Parliamentary inquiry is necessary when an RCMP investigation will do). What I have a problem with is Dion calling for an expended terms of reference, to include Harper's role when clearly he's had no role. Harper was an adversary. Whatever role he's played recently at worst could only be an obstruction of justice, but unlikely seeing as how Harper called for the inquiry, even if it's proven he did so reluctantly.
Perjury may be one of issues raised. Mulroney told the investigators in 1995 that he'd had no business dealings with Schreiber and on those grounds was given $2.1 million in tax-payers money in order to settle.
I think that allhatnocattle is absolutely right about Dion being wrong in attempting to implicate Harper in the whole affair . Although if I were in the RCMP or handling the investigation I would tell Schreiber that if he produces anything tangible he can stay in Canada but if nothing comes of his allegations than he can get ready to return to Germany.
I'm also not buying the whole thing about Mulroney being naive about the nature of his business transactions with Schreiber. He was offered $100,000 in CASH! There's no way he could be so naive as to possibly think that this was a good idea.
Of course his having taken the cash was a poor decision, you didn't need to hear it straight from the horses mouth to come to that conclusion. It doesn't make him any less guilty in perjury. I get the feeling that Schreiber isn't even going to have time to testify in the inquiry before he's deported back to Germany, so little good Mulroney being in favour of it does
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This is just standard Opposition rhetoric. You see a problem you call for an inquiry most of the time hoping the government doesn't actually call one and make you look like a fool when nothing is proven.
Does Dion have anything useful on Harper with the letters? Most likely not. But Harper was in the same boat when he started calling for an inquiry into the sponsorship scandal; it wasn't until things started coming to light that the real guns came out. Not saying this is anything like that at all but I wouldn't have expected anything more or less from the Opposition regardless of the leader or the party holding the title.
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I have no problem in Dion calling for an inquiry (although I don't think a Parliamentary inquiry is necessary when an RCMP investigation will do). What I have a problem with is Dion calling for an expended terms of reference, to include Harper's role when clearly he's had no role. Harper was an adversary. Whatever role he's played recently at worst could only be an obstruction of justice, but unlikely seeing as how Harper called for the inquiry, even if it's proven he did so reluctantly.
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I think that allhatnocattle is absolutely right about Dion being wrong in attempting to implicate Harper in the whole affair . Although if I were in the RCMP or handling the investigation I would tell Schreiber that if he produces anything tangible he can stay in Canada but if nothing comes of his allegations than he can get ready to return to Germany.
I'm also not buying the whole thing about Mulroney being naive about the nature of his business transactions with Schreiber. He was offered $100,000 in CASH! There's no way he could be so naive as to possibly think that this was a good idea.
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