Another little gift from Mr Chretien to Mr Martin.
OTTAWA: The RCMP will soon lay charges in relation to a massive investigation of Ottawa's sponsorship program, The Globe and Mail has learned.
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The politically charged investigation started last year over revelations in The Globe and Mail that Groupaction Marketing Inc. was paid $1.6-million to produce three reports, including one that is missing and two that are incomplete.
Don’t you just love it? JC leaves more mess to his successor, Paul Martin—who, by the way, is not deigning to give any substance to his policies after Liberal Party's Crowning.
Then we have Bill Graham, Minister of External Affairs, whose outrage at the Saudis has come a little late for Bill Sampson – and for anyone who reads current news at all. Your embassies protecting you abroad! -- meanwhile ushering in more refugees and immigrants with questionable, possibly terrorist ties or completely unknown backgrounds – their documents mysteriously having fallen into the toilet, I suppose, on the flight here. And of course, many are released to return for immigration hearings under their own volition. The Liberals protecting Canadians as usual!
Bill Sampson's case is a greater indictment of Canadian policy than it is of Saudi Arabia, about which we shouldn't harbour illusions.
What could Canada have done for Sampson in prison? Easy, we should have been prepared to expel the Saudi ambassador, cut cultural and trade relations, ban Saudis from entering Canada, treat that country as an enemy if necessary.
