Tories set to release Grewal tapes and hand them to RCMP
A compilation of politically tantalizing taped discussions will be made public, turned over to the RCMP and has piqued the interest of Parliament’s ethics watchdog.
The Conservatives will release transcripts Tuesday from hours of closed-door discussions between a Tory MP and top officials in the Liberal government. B.C. MP Gurmant Grewal secretly recorded up to four hours of backroom talks with Prime Minister Paul Martin’s top aide Tim Murphy and Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh.
The tapes could contain political and legal dynamite.
“It will be turned over to the RCMP,” said a senior Conservative official.
“It’s coming out today (before 2 p.m.)”
The office of ethics commissioner Bernard Shapiro also wants to see transcript conversations, which took place in the days before a crucial confidence vote two weeks ago when a Tory effort to bring down the government failed.
In an eight-minute snippet already made public, PMO chief of staff Tim Murphy is overheard counselling Grewal on how to skip the vote and explain his absence as a matter of principle.
Murphy also indicates a willingness to negotiate a possible reward later for Grewal and his wife, Nina, also an MP.
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