In yet another indication of the shear desperation of the Liberal Party to hold onto power—at any cost whatsoever—Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal claims he was bribed with a Senate seat or an ambassadorial position—if he would switch to the Liberals.
My understanding of the law is that this could be seen as a criminal act.
Liberal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh was implicated as one of the Liberals offering the bribe.
Grewal indicated that several other Conservatives have also been approached with the attempted bribe.
Earlier, Conservative MP Inky Mark claimed to have been offered a similar arrangement and he also declined. Later, Liberal cabinet minister Reg Alcock denied the whole thing, and made the allegedly racist claim, “we’d pick someone a little higher up the gene pool”.
The Liberals denied they’d ever do such a thing. Then of course they successfully bribed Belinda Stronach.
Grewal says he taped some of the conversations.
Interestingly, Grewal’s wife is also a Conservative MP, and she was reportedly also offered a Senate seat.
This is yet another blow to the effort of the Liberals to maintain any semblence of morals or ethics. This is yet another cause of abhorrence—it’s an abomination of the highest order.
UPDATE 5:53 PM: As I write, Ujjal Dosanjh is holding a scrum denying it all, and saying that rather than him offering Grewal a position, Grewal had sent an emissary to Dosanjh asking—repeatedly, Dosanjh said—for a position if he and his wife were to cross the floor. He said both Grewal and his wife wanted to cross the floor and constantly badgered him for a position.
The tape was then released (even as I was still typing this) by the Conservative Party, and played on CTV Newsnet, and it indicated that there certainly were negotiations with Tim Murphy, the PM’s chief of staff (we heard them discussing quite clearly), and Grewal. Murphy was telling Grewal how to approach the matter of getting a position and such. Then Newsnet went to commercial as the top of the hour approached.
UPDATE 6:35 AM Thursday May 19: CTV has provided the same tape I heard, at their site. Click here to listen. It certainly sounds like an offer FROM Murphy to Grewal which Murphy asks Grewal to consider (“I don’t expect you to answer right now, you can think about it…”. But did Grewal ASK for an offer? There are buyers but are there sellers?
UPDATE 7:33: A CBC reporter said that he spoke to Grewal’s emissary and asked what’s what—did Grewal want to cross the floor and did he then approach the Liberals—or was it the other way around? The answer from the emissary was that it seems as though he vouches for Dosanjh’s version of the story. He says in fact that Grewal had been using him as a go-between for a long time, trying to score a deal with the Liberals so he and his wife could ditch the Conservatives and join the Liberals.
However Grewal denied all that to the CBC reporter, and he says he has more tapes.
UPDATE 12:16 PM: Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe has said in a media scrum that he will be asking the RCMP to step in and investigate the allegations. It’s not entirely clear just what he is alleging because CBC Newsworld (world of liberals) cut off coverage of that scrum when a Liberal started his own scrum, just to say hi, apparently, and being a Liberal who was saying anything other than something negative to Liberals, that was deemed far more important for the CBC and its viewers.
But as I indicated earlier, my understanding of this is that if this happened as Grewal alleges, this could be seen as a criminal act. Clearly Gilles Duceppe agrees.
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