…but dint know nuttin about the Liberal Party adscam sponsorship scandal —the biggest corruption scandal this country has ever known —even while he was one of the leaders of the Party involved and the Finance Minister at that.
And Toronto Sun columnist, former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister, and Conservative Party Atlantic Campaign Chairman John Crosbie picked up on it too.
ST. JOHN’S—Last week’s leaders’ debates showed a clearly desperate and panicking Paul Martin again accusing Conservative Leader Stephen Harper of yet another hidden agenda—said to be to cut social programs to pay for tax cuts.
It is strange that Martin claims to know all the details of what he alleges to be Harper’s “hidden agenda” despite all of the policy detail given by Harper during this election. Yet Martin says he knew nothing about the finances and actions of his own Quebec Liberal Party when he was a senior Quebec minister under Jean Chretien—and as minister of finance provided the money that went to the sponsorship program.
Martin claims to know all the details of the hidden agenda of the Conservative Party, while maintaining he knew nothing about the hidden agenda of his own party, found by Justice John Gomery to have engaged in “elaborate kickback schemes benefiting the Liberal Party of Quebec.”
Martin, who pretends he supports civility in the campaign, from the start questioned the patriotism of Harper, claimed he wasn’t “fit to govern,” and suggested that Harper and Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe would “work together to dismantle this country.” In the latest debates, he painted the Conservative leader as a social Conservative who would turn Canada into Alabama!
Now the vicious and unprincipled Liberal attacks on Harper released last week clearly prove power corrupts—and the prospect of losing power corrupts absolutely.
The scurrilous, Martin-authorized ads are propaganda of the sort no decent person would use.
The English writer Carlyle once refused to meet with the poet Swinburne, saying he had no wish to meet someone “who was sitting in a sewer and adding to it.” Paul Martin is sitting in a sewer today and adding to it!
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