He’s the Garth that keeps on giving;
My seatmate, feisty Robert Thibault from Yarmouth, stopped drawing me a diagram of how the Mulroney-Schreiber affair massively implicates the Harper government, long enough in QP to level a blast at Nicholson. Fed with some notes on extradition which Michael Ignatieff threw across my desk at him, Robert demanded to know if the minister would exercise his power and keep Schreiber in Canada long enough to testify, first before Parliament, then before an inquiry.He delivered the question like a rolling volley of thunderous cannon fodder*. Around him MPs jumped to their feet, applauding. “Thi-bault, Thi-bault,” they chanted.
That’s when, rising, obviously draining of passion, Rob said he would not and could not. He slumped down.
Minutes later Paul Szabo stood up behind me, the chairman of the House of Commons ethics committee. He read a brief motion the committee had passed asking the Speaker to issue a rare warrant to command Schreiber to appear.
And now, for the rest of the story…
Thibault is on the House of Commons ethics committee.
From the comments – “The mere fact that Schreiber sent Harper a letter has the news people going wild… But Thibault has 2 meetings with the guy, and one has to read it on a Blog.”. Indeed.
Update: This information turns up buried at the bottom of a Bruce Cheadle report on Nov.14th. Now that the dog and pony show has been shown up for fools by Schreiber’s refusal to testify, perhaps they can make some use of the time left open to put Thibault in the chair.
Update 2: A reader writes “I believe that Garth changed the comments he made re Thibault on his blog. I read it in the beginning, and then I went back several hours later and the reference was changed to what you have reported. So I went into the comments because many times people quote him, and thankfully I found where someone quoted what was originally said by Garth.”
The passage that appears to have existed and then pulled ;
I am with Robert Thibault in caucus right now. Thibault says: “There were two people who knew about the cash – KHS and BM. I had the opportunity to talk to KS and then disclose what I found out during QP – that the first hundred thousand was paid to BM while he was still an MP. Harper met with BM numerous times, and has never disclosed anything – only when he was shamed by the KS affidavit did
he temporarily close off relations with his former close advisor.” – Garth
Will the next whack job please step forward.
? But you’re already here.. LOL
Here is a link to the video of KS opening statements.
http://tinyurl.com/ytww34
Does anyone even know the actual “process” for dealing with incoming mail to the PM?
Ask anyone who works in a political office, that letters do not get opened by the PM, but the actual secretary or assistant designated to open letters every day. These letters are then sent to ministerial aide’s that review them (with a political eye) and then are moved in three different ways: to the bureaucracy, to the Chief of Staff, and then to the PM.
A letter from KHS can enter an office of the PM, but technically, but not until the ‘big book of letters’ is officially viewed for signing, most never even reach the PM’s eyes.
Guaranteed this letter was intercepted by the political aide’s and guaranteed that the PM never saw it.
Whether it was brought to Harper’s attention in tacit form is a different story. A good chief of staff would never have let the PM anywhere near this… as should be. IT does not preclude the fact that the Conservative political team began some spindoctoring and strategizing of its own. Guaranteed, someone inside the government new about it and reacted to it. That is how the PM should be protected, ANY PM.
Media. Do your homework.
Cheers!
Leto
ET, it didn’t take long. KHS just said he was “shocked” at guess whom, PMSH (over handling of some letter apparently). Thibualt is in there with gloves off, which makes me wonder if if this is still Canada, where a possible perpetrator is a lead investigator. KHS blathering on, problem for him and Grits is Cdns don’t believe KHS, or care about this so-called scandal; so, no winner/loser on votes, yet.
Anyway, KHS performing exactly as expected, needing notes to complete his taking points, then suddenly having total recall, sorry about the knifing you buddy, Elmer’s McKay’s letter of support, which now proves the web of lies Mulroney prepared to use. Hey wait a minute, isn’t that Petie’s dad? Say, he is a PRESENT DAY C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-V-E, (and he’s met Harper TOO) don’t you know. There’s the conspiracy, not Thibault’s as yet undisclosed meetings with KHS, now confirmed.
Well, good luck with that one. KHS is not credible, period. It has already become the predicted gong show, with Grits surely now howling in the Commons over Elmer’s letter, which somehow proves “the” coverup. They’re putting a huge sake in this one, an it will likely blow up in their faces, or just peter out.
Is it just me or does Schrieber remind you of the Hamburgler of McDonalds fame. I guess that makes Thibault Mayor Mc Cheese and Szabo Ronald himself.
Good stuff guys!
Syncro
customer: Waiter, I’ll have a KarlHeinzSchreiber.
waiter; great
customer: what’s it like?
waiter: i cannot say
customer: but i want one and I want to know what’s in it
waiter: sorry, sir.
does this sound like a Monty Python skit?
Question. If Tait and Randall were granted two more IQ points, would they qualify to be mollusks?
“Schreiber offered few details on what was involved in the cash payments, only saying the money which was given to Mulroney shortly after he left office, was “for future services.””
So this had nothing at all to do with Mulroney’s time in office and nothing to do with Airbus.
So what’s at issue then? Why is this a public matter? I mean, aside from the media, the liberals and the NDP cynically trying to smear Harper.
Everything that Karlheinz Schrieber has done has one motivation and that is to avoid extradition. He is a Canadian citizen who has committed no crime in Canada. After the Airbus inquiry, Mulroney sued the Canadian gov’t and won. Apparently Schrieber filed a $35 Million lawsuit against the Canadian gov’t as well. Shortly after he was jailed and ordered extradited by that gov’t. It seems to me that the people that Schrieber is angry at, the people that he wants to expose are the people who put him in jail and have fought his extradition. That would be the Chretien Liberal gov’t and their friends. I think this thing will end badly for the Liberals.
From the G&M today, his letter of apology to Mulroney where he says:
“Over the past three months I have learned a lot about the “monster” that has dogged our footsteps since 1994. Without a doubt, this is the biggest “Political Justice Scandal” in Canadian history.
The most recent statements under oath in court and during Examinations for Discover have confirmed that Stevie Cameron, journalist, writer, confidential RCMP informant and complainant, had been passing information to the Mounties since 1988. She, together with a convicted Swiss criminal, Giorgio Pelossi, Canadian political figures and government officials are responsible for the “Political Justice Scandal” in Canada as well as in Germany and many other countries.”
“The “Political Justice Scandal” around the “Airbus Affair” will not go away by itself. The people behind the conspiracy must be exposed through determined actions and brought to justice. You and I have a responsibility towards our families, our friends, international companies involved, as well as to Canadians, to Canada and ourselves.”
Yes, I just heard that too, given after he left office. None of our business then what he did with his money.
This inquiry is an waste of time and money.
The key questions asked and answered
Who approached you for money?
Mr Doucet
Why
The Mulroneys were strapped for cash as they had sold the furniture in error and needed to undo the deal
What was the money for
Future Services
Did Mr Mulroney lobby the government on you behalf after he left office (paraphrasing a series of questions by Hibbert)
No
Have you ever contributed to the Conservative party in its new form
No
Why cash
Thats the way things were done (I think he said soething like that)
So where is the scandal here…..Mulroney got money for future services becasue he stupidly sold furniture and had to come up with some money to make good on the deal.
Schreiber said there was no tie to Airbus, although he declined to say the source of the funds.
Now can we please decide that he has little else to say and stop the oppsotition from a fishing expidition onto the Mulroney/Clark wars.
If that was the case then we shoudl open up Skyshops, the contributors to the pool at 24 sussex under trudeau, all of the fundraising around Tuirner and chretien, turner and martin, and the auberge thing and the BDC thing….
This is getting ridiculous.
Although I chiuckled when he said he would get his records from Switzerland…..that is where the gold (literally and figuratively) is.
Point made by BR. If Schreiber’s citizenship was granted in 1999 by the Chretien gov’t, was he under investigation by the German government for fraud and tax evasion at the time, if so could the Liberal government be accused of circumventing judicial process. (No that couldn’t happen because the Liberals are great espousers of Canadian values.) On the other hand could his citizenship be traced to tie in with the Judy Sgro debacle. Just thinking.
Antenor…thanks, that is a visual I just did not need.
As Harper (who has zero ties to any of this crap) has been smeared by association, I say that he should open the cupboard and let every liberal skeleton fall out for all to see.
There are ACTUAL ties between liberals and this german crook.
Make this the witch hunt the leftards claim to want.
Harper has nothing to hide. Can the same be said of Chretien or Martin? I bloody doubt it.
On the other hand could his citizenship be traced to tie in with the Judy Sgro debacle.
I doubt it . KHS is kinda old to pole dance ….. although it seems like he’d do just about anything to stay in Canada .
Thanks Bil. Now I have to find a way to erase that mental image from my mind. Ew.
would they qualify to be molluks
Molluks?
Meanwhile on ctv,it has been revealed that it was 500 grand that was offered,not 300 grand,but no work was done hence only 300 hundred was paid.Now the astonished anchor is quoting 500 grand numbers while emphasizing on a half a million,what next,just under a million?
Harper sternly warned the opposition that if we’re going to investigate Mulroney, then we should also investigate our more recent Prime Ministers as well. There would be a lot more to gain by finding out where the $1B in HRDC money went, or how the Shawinigate loan got “done”, or maybe even how the gun registry ended up costing more than $1B. From Helicopter cancellation penalties to money stolen in the 1997 Referendum, Chretien’s legacy is full of worm holes.
As a Canadian, I consider Mulroney’s $300k to be a private deal, but Chretien’s troubles all involved taxpayer’s money. And then there’s Paul Martin’s tax evasion with CSL. But we’re incensed about a private deal for $300k. The MSM/Liberal collusion could not be more obvious.
Leto- as you point out, most certainly, the PM doesn’t open his own mail!
But, the PM’s office actually wrote the Press and informed them how that letter was dealt with. Her letter was published on National Newswatch as well. The PM never saw the letter, nor should he have. The PM cannot interfere with a judiciary process. Why on earth is that so hard to understand for some people? Such interference only takes place in dictatorships, not in democracies that must abide by the rule of law.
And that means – no interference with that law.
If anyone should be shocked, it should be the MSM and the Canadian public, that Thibault, who met privately with Schreiber, is allowed to remain on the Ethics Committee. That’s blatant interference.
Elmer MacKay’s letter? What about Marc Lalonde, a Liberal’s letter, and his assistance in bailing Schreiber out at one time.
Antenor – The Germans have been trying to extradite Schreiber for over 8 years. Why do you think Schreiber took out Canadian citizenship at that same time? He was a German citizen and, knowing that the Germans wanted to try him for German tax evasion and fraud, he got Canadian citizenship. Hmm. How did someone who is being investigated by another country for criminality, acquire Canadian citizenship?
The Liberal agenda to drag Parliament down to its level continues apace. Liberals out of power are not a pretty sight.
So KHS says he has had no contact with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Thus this would put PMSH in the clear. Moreover, if KHS is attempting to avoid extradition one wouldn’t want to irritate the current govt.. Clever move.
The projected smear job on PMSH has effectively just been blown by KHS testimony.
Further KHS says his relationship with former PMBM went sour in the 1980s, but wouldn’t nail down a specific date.
Moreover, Airbus is in the clear as KHS has suggested the 300K was for future consideration in respect of his business per his most recent affadavit.
Yes it is always good to keep your testimony straight.
Ergo former PMBM wouldn’t declare earnings to Canada Revenue Agency because the payments were held in trust in ‘future consideration’ of work to be done.
Thus we have a ‘tempest in a teapot’, while the National Circus Director KHS cracks the whip and all the parliamentarian obediently dance.
KHS and former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney should hash out their dispute in front of the civil court where it belongs.
The special Speakers warrant and Parliamentary Lack of Ethics Committee hurling about libelous statements in respect of former MPs is conduct unbecoming a democracy.
If MPs have evidence of payola for influence peddling in Parliament, they should bring that forward to the proper authorities rather than cleverly using Parliamentary immunity to make outlandish statements.
Harper has two challenges — one to ensure that the present Conservative party is not speared by any of this and two to protect the overall interests of Canadians. The first is not too difficult, since most people with any common sense would not see much of a connection here between Harper and events from 15 years ago. Curiously, of the few things he did say, I believe Shreiber said that the money was for “future services” — I think I picked that up somewhere, so I don’t even think that Mulroney goes down on this one. But the real losers are Canadians. This morning, watching the proceedings made me think that the MP’s look like absolute fools. They are not in charge. I think this whole affair is taking its toll on the dignity of Parliament and Parliamentarians. We are also thwarting justice in preventing Schreiber from facing presumably legitimate charges in Germany. I am glad Nicholson has not interfered with the extradition charges so far and I think that all parties should see that allowing Schreiber to be removed to Germany is about the only intelligent way to defuse this kangaroo court and allow the MP’s on the ethics committee to retain any sense of decorum. They (the MP’s) really are starting to look like something out of Gulliver’s Travels.
Did Thibault help Schreiber craft the letter to Harper in order to implicate him (Harper)? Are Thibault’s hands clean?
ET said: “If anyone should be shocked, it should be the MSM and the Canadian public, that Thibault, who met privately with Schreiber, is allowed to remain on the Ethics Committee.”
During one of the early ethics Committee meetings about this point, the Chair, Liberal Paul Szabo, said that he could not remove Thibault, under existing rules.
He added that only Thibault could remove himself…and there it stood. Thibault stayed put.
Clarification – apparently Schreiber took out his Canadian citizenship not in the 90s but in 1982, but retained his German citizenship; he’s a dual citizen.
He’s wanted in Germany on charges of fraud, bribery and 20 million tax evasion. Now, is he going to change his nature, or will he continue to engage in fraud and bribery?
His 1997 lawsuit against Mulroney was that he paid Mulroney 300,000 for ‘services’ but these were not rendered. Today, he’s changing his story. The amount is now 500,000.
Just as he changed his earlier testimony that his deal with Mulroney was made AFTER Mulroney stepped down as PM – and Schreiber changed it to ‘two days before’.
I love your name: The Lack of Ethics Committee. Absolutely Perfect.
hans rupprecht – yes, I agree. Schreiber is clever; he can’t risk alienating the Harper govt. He’ll, however, allow and enable the Liberals to smear the Harper govt.
Having observed this circus for the last several days could someone, preferably one of our lef-leaning visitors, please spell out to me in clear unequivocal terms exactly what Mr. Harper has supposedly covered up and exactly what he has done wrong that I’m supposed to be outraged about? He spoke to Brian Mulroney — yes, but so what? Does the fact that Trudeau spoke to Mao make him a mass murderer? Churchill spoke to Stalin. Chamberlain spoke to Hitler. RCMP speak to criminals every day. So freakin’ what? Did Harper get kickbacks from Airbus? Has he been given money under the table? Was his early membership in the Reform party a closet effort to resuscitate the PC party of Mulroney and Clark?
And in the midst of all this that genius “Mr. Unedited” is caught once again editing.
Syncro
ET- you are correct re; Schreiber’s citizenship.
Note to self: Don’t take anything as fact that you see posted on a Lefty blog.
So it’s pretty late in the day now.
Has KHS told any body anything that has any merit?
I wonder how long it will be before CBC tries to change the channel? Haven’t heard any Khadr news for a week now.
All of these house of commons committees are an absolute joke. The ethics committee treats a devious criminal (alleged) like KHS with deference and kid gloves. A man who has done nothing politive for this country and is simply using the committee for his own purposes.
Yet, Shane Doan the team Canada captain, was treated like criminal by the HoC language committee for charges that the NHL had already cleared him of. An admired and respected Canadian athlete that enhances our image wherever he and the rest of the team plays.
Then they wonder why average Canadians tune out politics. Gee, I wonder where the voter apathy comes from. Could it possibly be that most of our government officials regarded as fools of the highest order? Unable to separate personal/party ambition from beneficial public service. Honorable members….riiiiiight.
The only thing is that we, the taxpayer, are forced to pay for these idiots wasting our money and destroying the credibility of our institutions.
SDA Sheeple,
In all your adrenalin fired zeal you’re not zeroing on what the fallout will eventually be.
This is a no lose situation for the Liberals…their fortunes are already at a 20 year low.
Also a no lose situation for the CPC…KHS has no credibility.
The only thing at stake are the ‘un-decideds’…and they won’t recall or be affected by this circus on election day.
Note the second update from kate, where Thibault says that:
“There were two people who knew about the cash – KHS and BM. I had the opportunity to talk to KS and then disclose what I found out during QP – that the first hundred thousand was paid to BM while he was still an MP. Harper met with BM numerous times, and has never disclosed anything – only when he was shamed by the KS affidavit did
he temporarily close off relations with his former close advisor.”
What proof does Thibault provide us with that Schreiber was telling the truth? Furthermore, the fact that Harper met with Mulroney ‘numerous times’ is irrelevant. Thibault has no right to insinuate, as he is obviously doing, that Harper and Mulroney were talking about Schreiber!! Nor that Mulroney was a ‘close advisor’. Thibault’s agenda is clear: Guilt by Association.
But, Thibault was associated with Schreiber. Isn’t that Guilt by Association? And so was the Liberal Marc Lalonde. And Schreiber gave more to the Liberal than the Progressive Conservative party. And none to Harper’s CPC.
What shocks me about this whole event is the total rejection by the MSM and the Liberal MPs of any respect for facts, truth, ethics. It is a stunning rejection. There’s no difference in mentality between this Liberal-MSM witch hunt and the insane rants of terrorists, of medieval witch hunts, or other rants. Yet, our MSM and MPs are supposed to operate in an atmosphere of respect – for facts, truth, ethics. What have they done, and why are we Canadians putting up with this?
ET – Wikpedia has Schreiber getting his citizenship
in 1982, while the CBC has it in 1981. In either case it was Trudeau who was PM at that time.
From the CBC;
“In 1974 Schreiber began traveling to Canada, eventually setting up a company in Alberta. In 1981 Schreiber became a Canadian citizen.
Through his connections to people around Strauss, Schreiber met Brian Mulroney then the president of the Iron Ore Company of Canada.
Schreiber liked the young lawyer and was anxious to help him in his quest to become the Prime Minister of Canada. He funneled an unknown amount of money into the campaign to undermine Joe Clark at the 1983 PC convention in Winnipeg. The funds helped buy tickets for newly minted, anti-Clark delegates to fly to the convention. This influx of anti-Clark delegates kept a confidence vote on Clark’s leadership below 70 percent. Clark called for a leadership convention, one that Mulroney would win later that year.
Around the same time, Schreiber was also actively involved in Costa Rica where, he claimed, he helped support the anti-Sandinista Nicaraguan rebels.
Schreiber, during this period, was working for the German intelligence agency the BND.”
“The only thing at stake are the ‘un-decideds’…and they won’t recall or be affected by this circus on election day.”
Hate to break your bubble Liberal Ron, but the media has made this thing so huge that people will be easily reminded of it anytime somebody brings it up. And when nothing comes out of KHS and this whole thing turns into a wild goose chase (which it will) the only thing the undecideds will see is that the Opposition not only allowed a known perjurer and criminal to waste our money and circumvent extradition (side-stepping the law), but that it was the Liberals rabid zeal to use this as a political mud-slinging game that allowed KHS to do so.
That 20 year low? Until it hits zero, it can still go down.
ET — re your comment: . . . “he paid Mulroney 300,000 for ‘services’ but these were not rendered. Today, he’s changing his story. The amount is now 500,000.”
I don’t believe he said he paid Mulroney 300,000, just that an original agreement was for the larger amount . . . and we know that he is now trying to get back the 300,000 or some portion of it for services not delivered. Quite frankly none of this appears to be realted to Airbus, so what are MP’s on about. I do think it is time to take a closer look at Thibault’s apparent mischief making.
Did I hear a LIberal call the SDA readers Sheeple?
When you actually figure out what that means Ronnie boy please let us all know.
BTW – you wouldn’t be my lefty lovin brother in law from Oshawa would you? Still getting ALL your opinions from the Star and CBC??
Confessions of a moonbat loser (from his own unread blog):
Don
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
“I’ve written two really bad novels. But that’s what happens when you have the unfortunate combination of lusty bar wenches with werewolves.”
His cranial cavity is empty. Responding to his baiting is a waste.
I think it’s great the more Canadians see their Liberal representatives. They just come across as characters from a Sopranos set.
The whole thing is turning into nothing but hearsay, or an attempt to slam the PM.
Interesting though Mike Duffy said after in the interview with the conservative member of the committee (Tilden?) the PM is in no way conected as stated by KHS, The conservative member called it right nothing but a circus with KHS in complete control. KHS has just succeeded in getting his extradition stayed as this Joke will go on most likely Longer then the actual inquiry.
Liberal Ron,
It is rare that I agree with a lefty on anything, but I believe you are right that this charade will be forgotten on election day.
Even though it appears that the Liberals have nothing to lose, I am sure that as long as Dion is your leader, he continue to come up with something to push you further down the rabbit hole.
The CPC is a smart, confident party with a great leader. Harper will retain power and the USA will not elect any of the Democrat wimps on the hustings today.
Life is conservative and harsh times bring reality into focus. Only conservatism can cope with reality.
The fantasy world of the happy collective is not what is needed now or ever. Your mama may have told you there were no monsters, but she either lied or was naive. Islam is upon us and that makes climate change and petty kick-backs such as the Mulroney thingy a part time job for the deluded.
Your mama will be wearing a burka long before Florida has a high water problem if we don’t pay attention to reality.
Irwin:
What’s even more entertaining is that Don is a former Liberal riding President. Classy organization that.
Schrieber donated $10,000 to the Liberals in 1993 and donated $6,100 to the PC’s over several years.
From the Ottawa Citizen;
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=c50c55d5-1544-40e6-b17b-b264f549eebd
Speaking of Liberal representatives, tig, here’s the CBC’s Don Newman: “Interesting to watch the political dynamic. All of a sudden Dave Tilsson, who is a Conservative member of parliament raises questions about both official languages — I didn’t realize Mr. Tillson spoke both official languages — but obviously each of the parties — we’re watching the Liberals, we’re watching the NDP, the Bloq — seem to have less of an agenda than the other three (Conservative commission members), perhaps.”
Was he watching some other committee by mistake, or something? What a joke.
Even Schreiber took a shot at the CBC’s credibility, in a manner of speaking; after the NDP’s Pat Martin asked “Did the cash payments that you gave to Mr. Mulroney come from the account of the secret commissions on the Airbus Sale?” Schreiber said sarcastically “You know all this from the Fifth Estate…”
Martin, undeterred: “Did it come from the Airbus?”
Schreiber: “No.”
M: “Have you ever spoken directly with or met prime minister Stephen Harper?”
S: “No.”
M: “Has a lawyer, while acting on your behalf, ever met with or spoken with prime minister Harper?”
“No.”
“Have you or a lawyer, while acting on your behalf, ever met with or spoken with a member of the staff of prime minister Harper’s office?”
“Not to my knowledge.”
I hope a Committee member asks Schreiber in the next session “Have you ever met or spoken with Committee member Robert Thibault in the last year?”
This comment is going to come very close to the 7 million mark – congratulations, Kate. You’ve really done something.
Anyways, CTV News was skeptical about Schreiber’s credibility. What about the CBC?
ET,Steve, Kate & whoever can answer this question
i would like to know this, If liberal MP Thibault has spoken to KHS prior to this committee meeting & since he has stated in the HOC that he has communicated with him(KHS) The question is this, Is Liberal MP a sitting member of the HOC committee not in a Conflict of Interest?
I would say yes he is & he should be removed from the Committee.
Is this correct or am i wrong?
Just checked out the CBC, man what a waste of tax payers money
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bryanr – I would agree with you. Thibault is in a conflict of interest because he met, privately, on his own initiative (or rather, on the initiative of the Liberal Party) with Schreiber. But, it’s up to the MPs to insist on that. Or people writing the Chair, Szabo.
He can’t use the excuse, as Garth Turner is claiming, that this meeting was for ‘research’. If Schreiber claims that he doesn’t know anything without the papers from Ottawa and Switzerland, then Thibault’s meeting with him in a jail in Toronto, couldn’t result in researched information.
Plus, Thibault didn’t meet with Mulroney, in his zeal for information. So- that excuse is nonsense.
Thibault met with him to map out the Liberal agenda of a deal. The Liberals would ensure that his extradition would not take place, in return for his smears against Mulroney. The Liberals would do the Guilt By Association task of linking Harper to Mulroney.
Although, from the sounds of it, Schreiber is doing his part to assist the Liberals. He has indeed affirmed that he has never met or talked with Harper, nor has any of his legal team done so. He does state that he asked Mulroney to talk with Harper about his extradition. He claims that Mulroney said he had done so; and that he, Schreiber, is ‘stunned’ that Harper denies this.
But Schreiber is being careful; he doesn’t want to alienate the govt in power, while he works with the Liberals to ensure he’s never returned to Germany.
Schreiber is a dual citizen; he holds both Canadian and German citizenship, so any bleeding heart weeping about ‘poor Schreiber, a Canadian’, being sent back to The Land of the Third Reich, as suggested on Garth Turner’s site, is also nonsense.
Schreiber doesn’t want to delay his extradition. His collaboration comes only if his extradition is stopped. Period. He doesn’t want to face the German courts for his fraud, corruption and tax evasion (over 20 million) charges.
Daniel,
I tried to follow both and,IMO,CBC was a little more willing to repeatedly mention Harper’s name and allow viewers to assume association than CTV.
On the other hand,I am admittedly very distrustful of the CBC,so I could be simply biased when I say it appeared they were sitting on their hands to try and hide the glee they seemed to be feeling from presiding over a possible right-wing scandal.
Now,don’t get me wrong here,I think Mulroney is an arrogant sleazebag,up there with Chretien and Martin,but this stinks of a simple anti-conservative witch hunt.
This was obvious to me when Schreiber dangled some self-motivated tidbits and an exuberant lib MP excitedly bit and called the revelation of $500,000 a blockbuster(or some similar grand rhetorical term).He was quickly rebuffed as mistaken,but too late to keep from exposing his obvious partisan agenda.
It is not unusual for the liberals to be in bed with criminals. It would be nothing to the liberal party to pay off Schreiber to concoct some wild story to try and bring down the conservative government. This is going to blow up big time in their faces. Well done Kate!