Globe and Mail: Cadman planned to run again despite cancer: Conservatives

[tuvor]

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The Liberals dismissed as fiction the Tory explanation that two party operatives offered the dying MP a chance to rejoin the Conservative caucus and secure the riding nomination with a promise they would provide any financial help he might need to get re-elected.

“He didn't need a Conservative nomination,” Liberal deputy leader Michael Ignatieff said Monday during Question Period.

“He wasn't going to run. He didn't need their help. How long do they keep repeating these stories? No one believes them. So I ask you again, what financial considerations were offered to Mr. Cadman and his family?” he demanded.

“Mr. Cadman was going to run again,” responded Conservative MP James Moore, parliamentary secretary of public works and the government's point person on the contentious file.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080310.wquestionperiod0310/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

(If only they'd "remembered" to tell us this important bit of information two weeks ago.)

[daleo]

1. It seems wrong to even satirize such a far fetched claim

But, come on Conservative Party, "Weekend at Bernie's" was only a movie.

On edit: It is interesting how Harper is repeating Mulroney's behavior in the Schrieber scandal:

- get implicated in a bribery scandal.
- say it never happened, and if it did, you had nothing to do with it.
- sue anyone who says otherwise.
- come up with more and more incredible stories as the truth comes out.
- take advantage of the fact that "dead men tell no tales".

[Spazito]

2. They just keep digging the hole deeper...

gotta love it.

[Caradoc]

3. Neo-crock

Harper has learned so much from Bush-Cheney. When caught, just spin, spin, spin. Perhaps the most amoral Canadian government in recent memory, and I'm including Mulroney in that. If their poll numbers take a substantial hit, and spring now on the horizon, a campaign may not be far behind. Apparently key Ontario liberals are pushing hard for it.