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Pot and kettle both black | |||||||
| Niagara Falls, Ontario, Friday, June 10, 2005 by: Joe Hueglin |
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| Do the "Criminal Code provisions that make it an offence to seek or offer inducements to a parliamentarian to influence government business." (2) make offers of Senate seats and ambassadorships a crime but not Stephen Harper's offer to Chuck Cadman of "an unopposed nomination in exchange for his vote on the budget bills"?(1) | ||||||||
| Hopefully not, for while there is a QUANTITATIVE difference between them QUALITATIVELY they are the same. | ||||||||
| An "unopposed nomination", all that the Conservative Party had available in opposition, was explicitly offered as an inducement. | ||||||||
| Had it been accepted this attempt "to influence government business" would most certainly have had an effect:Canada would now be in the midst of a General Election. | ||||||||
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| Something to remember as the Conservative pot seeks to blacken the Liberal kettle. | ||||||||
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Stephen Harper and Chuck Cadman |
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Martin was fully briefed on negotiations to poach Tory MP, transcripts show, |
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Cadman says his decision came just before vote |
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