Canada may now be in the early throes of a major political scandal.
CJOB News provides additional background on today's announcement that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has agreed to undertake an independent investigation into renewed allegations of corruption against former Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney:
In an abrupt about-face, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a review of Brian Mulroney's dealings with a controversial businessman and cut off contact with the man he valued as a political adviser.
Friday's reversal came just a day after new allegations from Karlheinz Schreiber threatened to draw Harper himself into the tangled Mulroney-Schreiber-Airbus affair. For days Harper had repeatedly dismissed Liberal demands for a probe into allegations involving $300,000 in cash payments to Mulroney by Schreiber.
... The announcement was prompted by a 20-page affidavit filed the previous day in Ontario Superior Court with fresh claims against Mulroney - and, for the first time, a mention of Harper in connection with the affair. .
... The affidavit says Mulroney asked Schreiber to write him a letter in July 2006 complaining about the Airbus scandal. In the letter, Schreiber describes himself and Mulroney as "innocent victims" of a political vendetta.
Schreiber's affidavit says: "(Mulroney) told me that he was going to meet with the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, the current Prime Minister of Canada, by the end of July, 2006, at Harrington Lake, and that he (Mr. Mulroney) was going to show to Mr. Harper a copy of Exhibit 15 (the letter) to show that he and I were on good terms."
The prime minister told a news conference that he indeed had the Mulroneys over around that time.
"My family and I did host the former prime minister and his family for a social occasion at Harrington Lake in August 2006 at our invitation," Harper said.
"We did not discuss Mr. Mulroney's dealings with Mr. Schreiber during that visit."
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Isn't it time Ontario moved to a "paperless" court system that will allow the public to have ready online access to actual court filings such as the Schreiber affidavit referenced in today's news.
1 comment:
HI,
Just wondering what the court file number is for the action this affidavit is for - I've been looking for it and can't find it. Thanks in advance.
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