Sun Media’s Ottawa Bureau columnist Greg Weston is one of the go-to people on the massive Liberal Party corruption judicial inquiry currently underway in Montreal.
His latest column speaks of the Liberal Party’s dogs. Dogs like Warren Kinsella. Unfortunately for the dogs, a bunch of us are going to make sure they stay caged-up this time. Woof.
Critics barking at the inquiry’s heels
Protests from Chretien’s coterie aimed at the Gomery inquiry have shifted into high gear—they must fear something
Jean Chretien’s junk-yard dogs are at it again, yapping and snapping at the Gomery inquiry into the Adscam mess, apparently barking for the commission’s early demise.
In recent weeks, former Chretien operatives and other Liberal leftovers have been howling over the costs of the commission, with some estimates now running as high as $80 million.
Cost alone is reason enough to shut the inquiry down, they growl.
The latest cacophony from the Chretien kennel club erupted yesterday following an Ipsos-Reid poll on public attitudes toward the inquiry, now at its half-way mark.
The survey conducted for CTV and the Globe suggests 61% of Canadians don’t believe the commission will get to the bottom of Adscam, but 53% think it is worth trying, even at a cost of $80 million.
Shown a ‘bias’
About 37% of those polled thought Justice John Gomery has shown a “bias” against Chretien, and perhaps with reason—almost 80% of respondents didn’t believe the former PM’s testimony.
The poll caused an instant roar from Warren Kinsella, the loudest and most vicious (and easily most annoying) of Chretien’s barking bowsers.
Yesterday, Kinsella wrote the following commentary on his website (remember, this guy is a lawyer talking about a commission headed by a respected member of the judiciary):
“Well, let’s see—a majority of Canadians think this pile of judicial garbage won’t find out anything.”
“A whack of Canadians think its $80 million (and counting) price tag is obscenely high.
“And a huge number—bigger even in Quebec, where they are paying the closest attention—think Judge Gomery is biased against Jean Chretien, and has already written his final report.
“Apart from all that, public opinion on the Gomery Pyle Circus is just great. Just swell.”
So much sniffing and snorting from Chretien’s critters surely suggests only one thing: They have something to fear.
It all has the pungent smell of the Somalia inquiry, shut down in mid-stream by the Chretien government with all the same advance sniping now being used on Gomery.
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