And as I suspected (but haven’t had time to look up), there is apparently an exact criminal code reference to matters such as this:
The Criminal Code contains two broadly worded sections that prohibit government officials from offering any kind of benefit for someone’s co-operation or influence on government business, and prohibit anyone from soliciting or negotiating an appointment to a government office “in the expectation” of an advantage or benefit.
I’ve blogged about this story twice now—and called it a stinky onion. It’s getting more likely that we’ll be able to start peeling the layers away, now that NDP leader Jack Layton has joined Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe in calling for the RCMP to investigate.
I think the implications are huge in light of all the buying of people—at least one MP, Belinda Stronach—and people’s votes by the Liberals, just prior to the confidence vote.
This is the story about Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal who alleged, just the day before the big confidence vote, that the Liberals attempted to bribe him with power goodies if he defected to their cause. He said he had tapes proving it—and sure enough he had tapes of a conversation between himself and Tim Murphy, Paul Martin’s chief of staff.
The Globe and Mail is my source this morning.
NDP Leader Jack Layton yesterday joined calls for the RCMP to investigate a taped conversation in which it is alleged that the Prime Minister’s chief of staff suggested to an MP that the government would be more free to discuss a possible Senate appointment only after he and his wife, also an MP, abstained on Thursday night’s confidence vote.
Mr. Layton backed Bloc QuÃ
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