Justice Jeffrey Oliphant is expected to deliver his opinion Monday on whether Brian Mulroney's once-secret cash dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber live up to the "highest standard of conduct" the former prime minister championed for high office holders when he was in power.
The Manitoba judge will release his much-anticipated report at 1 p.m. ET -- the climax of a $16-million public inquiry into the appropriateness of the former prime minister's commercial relationship with the German-Canadian lobbyist.
Justice Oliphant has made clear he would weigh Mr. Mulroney's behaviour against the ethical standards he espoused as prime minister. In particular, he cited a line in Mr. Mulroney's 1988 "guidance to ministers" that said they should act in a "manner so scrupulous that it will bear the closest possible scrutiny."
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Well, we'll never know if he was crooked because the inquiry was specifically forbidden to look into any aspect of criminal wrong doing or ANYTHING Mulroney did while he was PM. He was probably the most corrupt PM in a generation but he got away with it.
Right. because people who are not crooked receive $400K in cash in a plain brown envelop.
I mean, really - foolish, dumb, clumsy but not crooked. Really? You believe that?
If you're a former PM who is stuffing a box with cash and keeping it in your basement...well, draw your own inferences.
Well, we'll never know if he was crooked because the inquiry was specifically forbidden to look into any aspect of criminal wrong doing or ANYTHING Chretien did while he was PM. He was probably the most corrupt PM in a generation but he got away with it.
Number two would be Paul Martin.....
Guess Mulroney forgot he was a former Prime Minister of Canada for a few moments. He'll probably be OK as long as his family member stays on the board of a mainstream media company.
Anon Deux
deeply regret that the press was allowed to get away with participating in the demonizing of Schreiber. He spread money around Alberta and only one MLA ever got outed (not charged, not even embarrassed that much) but the local list is much, much longer and includes names at the highest levels. Oh well...maybe some day.
Foot
Fair points
would love to see Mulroney go down in flames...can't stand him...never could
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