The you’ve got to be kidding party seems to have gotten caught in a gross mischaracterization of facts, and as a result is in the embarrassing position of having to apologize to the party of corruption. How low is that? Pretty low. Or as liberals call it, a “festival”.
See my blog entry about this when it first occurred. I included documents and what not. Very interesting how this unfolded. I’m glad I headlined it with a question mark.
NDP apologizes for alleging Liberal bribe
Candidate says he ‘misinterpreted’ discussion
Peter O’Neil, Vancouver Sun
Published: Thursday, July 06, 2006OTTAWA—The federal New Democratic Party has apologized for alleging during the 2006 election campaign that one of its candidates was offered a bribe by his Liberal competitor in B.C.
The charge, by NDP candidate Jeffrey Hansen-Carlson against Liberal David Oliver in the Tory stronghold riding of Abbotsford, dominated national media coverage on Jan. 13 and resulted in Liberal leader Paul Martin dumping Oliver as a party candidate.
Martin, already fighting against Tory allegations his party was corrupt, said he was removing Oliver because he had “zero tolerance for that sort of thing.”
NDP leader Jack Layton, at that time, denounced the Liberals and said his 23-year-old candidate had suffered “a horrifying experience” while “trying to participate in the democratic process.”
But the federal NDP and Hansen-Carlson, facing a defamation lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court, now acknowledge they misinterpreted a private discussion that led to the allegation.
[…] “I fully accept that result” of the Elections Canada decision, Hansen-Carlson said in a statement to Oliver’s lawyer. “I was mistaken in my interpretation of what happened. I apologize to David Oliver and Gordie Kahlon for my actions.”
The NDP and Eric Hebert, the party’s federal agent and the party official who filed the complaint with Elections Canada, issued a similar statement to Oliver and his lawyer.
“We accept the ruling of Elections Canada. We apologize to the Liberal candidate, David Oliver, and his associate Gordie Kahlon, for any embarrassment arising from our actions.”
Only yesterday I blogged about the director of the Liberal Party being forced to issue a formal apology to a polling firm which reported good numbers for Conservative Party popularity, which of course struck the Liberal as unliberal and therefore worthy of a malicious slander against the pollster.
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