Via radio news:
Gomery has announced a partial lifting of the ban on evidence, noting something that has been clear to anyone reading accounts – most of his evidence doesn’t incriminate those who have been charged, but both the Chretien and the current Martin Liberals.
Heh. Local talk radio host John Gormley is already spilling the details. You go, Metrosexual!
That the testimony that directly implicates those who face fraud trials is remaining under ban is a provision that I think is acceptable, and I will do my utmost to respect it, and ask my commentors to do the same.
And finally, a big thankyou to the talk radio stations here and across Canada who featured efforts and risks taken by bloggers and sent traffic flowing to our sites. Talk radio and the blogosphere are a natural fit, and we’ll both benefit if we can find ways to enhance the relationship.
In the meanwhile, I’m just looking forward to taking it easy for a few days. I plan to sit back and let the pros take over the real job of reporting on the testimony, so we bloggers can go back to our day jobs – keeping watch for the “spins of omission” soon to come from the usual suspects, once the realization settles in that The Natural Governing Party is in serious trouble of being supplanted by Extremist Conservatives.
One final thought.
Ed Morrissey of Captains Quarters should be nominated for the Order Of Canada.
(A more practical suggestion in the comments – go hit his donation tip jar, which you’ll find at the left side of the main page of his site).
Will the Liberals now be partially drawn and quartered?
Let’s all give a big Thank You to Captain Ed and his source.
Kate, it’s time to give the Liberals a big ripping.
Let’s get ready to rumble.
I’d like to nominate Ed Morrisey for the Order of Canada.
Big thank you Ed Morrisey, if you can get through the border will hide ya… 🙂
Kate,
Don’t you or Captain Ed let go of this story. Remember that the pro’s have been handling this story for months with no effective reaction. The blogosphere should stay on the story.
Once the ban was removed, the MSM spin doctors will distill the information into something that resembles the Liberal story of parallelism.
You are now entitled to put on that extra 5 lbs 😉
I don’t know what Hobbes means by parallelism, but it’s clear from what has now been published that Brault also claims to have made illegal payments to the PQ, though in nowhere near the same amount as to the Liberals.
That’s pretty important, because it would have some effect — I have no idea how much — on the dynamic of the election race in Quebec. It’s arguable (Lawrence Martin suggests this in the Globe today) that it would reduce the possibility of a huge Bloc sweep; the Bloc is joined at the hip to the PQ, so it would be pretty hard for them to keep slamming the Liberals for something their own provincial counterparts are doing.
And if the Bloc doesn’t sweep, the rest of the seats in Quebec go to the Liberals by default; the CPC has no hope there (unless Mulroney decides to rise from his political grave like Dracula and jump into the process for Harper).
We’ll give Captain Ed Ahanakew’s Order of Canada — we wouldn’t want to waste it on a nasty little Holocaust denier.
Herb,
What I mean is what I have read on some Canadian websites (no links here right now), on the way that the Liberal party is playing on this.
Their spin on this is that there were people acting as a group within the Liberal party who undertook these illegal activities. The party leadership is trying to distance themselves from the scandal by saying it was the actions of a few. Why the term parallelism is being used is beyond me.
shiela fraser needs an award also,and how about a forenisic audit into those ”FOUNDATIONS” where apparently billions have been funneled.
Cap’n Ed deserves something, but I was thinking more along the Order of the Tipjar as his bandwidth must have gone through several limits!
And thank you, Kate, for staying on this with your sharp insight and commentary.
after having just listened to mike duffy on the radio(heh duffy, go get a job at the cbc or something)ive concluded that shiela fraser has bigger balls than duffy
the praise for the Cap’n is richly deserved. huzzah!
(Hobbes, thanks for the clarification. I agree that it’s an unhelpful term. I took it to mean something like: everyone else was doing it too.)
The tipjar idea, I should have thought of. I know I”m not looking forward to the spike in bandwidth use this month, and I had a tenth of his traffic.
Ok, I just went and donated 50.00U.S., I think it was worth every penny to get this out in the open. Samll price to pay if it brings back some accountability into this dumb as system.
Maybe if the Canadian goverment manages to get any money back, they could send a tiny percentage off to the Captain.
“That the testimony that directly implicates those who face fraud trials is remaining under ban is a provision that I think is acceptable, and I will do my utmost to respect it, and ask my commentors to do the same.”
Now that the details of liberal corruption is out there, I can live with that. Good call.
I haven’t checked the source, but ‘parallel’ sounds like a good metaphor to me. The point is that parallel lines never meet, no matter how close together. Similarly, it would be possible to work for the same boss as a criminal for many years, to have an office next door, to be a close friend, and still not know of his criminality. Not likely, but possible. It’s not a great argument, or metaphor, but may be the best one available at this point.
Parrallel in only that they never actually bisect on paper.
But by glancing over you can easily communicate with someone who is running at a close parrallel.
Parrallel is perfectly used for those who think along the lines of denyability.