The other day in a short blog entry, I lambasted National Post columnist Don Martin for obliquely suggesting in a column that the Harper Conservatives, through their Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, were trying to “cover up” something in the Schreiber/Mulroney affair. I wrote:
The fallacy begins when he drops a little clue as to why he thinks the Conservatives can’t secure a majority: “Justice Minister Rob Nicholson … insisted he lacked the ability to prevent Mr. Schreiber’s deportation … He had the power. He didn’t want to act. Cover-up anyone?”
He went on about that furtive “cover up?”: “This is precisely the sort of arbitrary damn-the-optics antics that make people queasy about giving Mr. Harper a majority of seats. But I digress.”
Today in their lead editorial, the National Post agrees, but it was a kick instead at Stephane Dion’s shins. Maybe they don’t read Don Martin’s columns.
“…So what leads Liberal Leader Stephane Dion to conclude the current government is guilty of a “cover-up?” Nothing, it would seem—except a partisan desire to taint Mr. Harper with the sins of a Conservative predecessor…”
And as you saw, they drew a conclusion not unlike mine: that the reason for the accusation was “a partisan desire to taint Mr. Harper with the sins of a Conservative predecessor”.
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