Andrew Coyne returns to the blogosphere, with a much more sensible and browser friendly Blogger software. Today he summarizes the Adscam testimony of Chretien and friends, with a lengthy list of the things "we are asked to believe...."
We are asked to believe that the politicians responsible for a program that was conceived in secret, that appeared in no budget document, that was never divulged to Parliament and of which even cabinet ministers were unaware, should have been surprised to learn that bureaucrats answering to them were allocating millions of dollars in secret, without invoices or receipts.We are asked to believe, last, that Paul Martin did not know about the existence of the unity reserve until 1996, three years after he had been named Finance Minister; that he did not know what it was used for, ie sponsorships, until some years after that; and that he did not know about the abuses that went on under the program until some years after that. And yet, ignorant as he was as to either the purpose or results of the program, he immediately signed off on the Prime Minister�s request for funds, without question.
If past history is a guide, most probably will.
Yes, most probably will. What would it take to wean Canadians from the Liberal Party? Do we have to arrange for Paul Martin to: (a) fumble a football on-camera; (b) lose his luggage on a foreign junket; or (c) say something harebrained or offensive in Parliament so that we can put it on play money? Apparently systematic pillaging of the treasury isn't enough.
We need an information revolution like the one in the U. S. that saved the Bush presidency.(An incredibly effective and competent blogosphere) As it is now, with the near Liberal monopoly on information, the Liberal monopoly on government will continue.
The only way to get rid of Martin is to find him naked with a small child. Even then, until the information revolution he would only be replaced by the next Liberal pillager.