Kenneth Starr….. paging Mr. Kenneth Starr…. please pick up the white courtesy phone…
Ethics czar denies PMO interference in Grewal probe; unhappy with secret talks
OTTAWA (CP) – The federal ethics watchdog says he doesn’t appreciate being used as a bargaining chip by the prime minister’s chief of staff.
Bernard Shapiro was reacting to secretly taped negotiations between MP Gurmant Grewal and the Liberal government over Grewal’s potential defection from the Conservatives
On the tapes, Tim Murphy suggests he might be able to help Grewal by speeding up Shapiro’s independent investigation of the Tory MP.
Murphy is heard saying that getting Shapiro to issue an interim report might be helpful.
Shapiro says no demand was ever made by the prime minister’s staff and that such an approach would not be appreciated or countenanced.
The ethics commissioner also says he doesn’t appreciate having his office “bandied about in negotiations.”
But, you know, oh well! These things happen! Let’s not do anything about it and upset the quest for a Mo Liberal Canada!
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