The RCMP are investigating two aspects of the Bernier/Couillard debacle. First the whole lost/forgotten briefing notes thing, and second, allegations around a patronage appointment.
Sources said the RCMP investigation is focused on two lines of questioning: allegations that businesswoman Julie Couillard lobbied Conservative officials on a federal real estate deal, and how secret documents that belonged to Conservative MP Maxime Bernier when he was foreign affairs minister came to be left at Ms. Couillard's home.
The revelation about the probe came as sources said Thursday that Conservative official Bernard Côté helped Ms. Couillard's mother obtain a federal patronage appointment last year, after he dated Ms. Couillard.
Let's hope the RCMP will be a little more discreet this time in their investigation to avoid any new allegations of tampering with the electoral process. That story should also clarify that it is former Conservative official Bernard Côté.
Bernard Côté already resigned from Fortier's office for his failure to recuse himself from the Quebec City project. Michael Fortier also publicly spanked him for his failure. It seems here again, it's Bernard Côté at the centre of this potential scandal. It is good that he is gone.
I wonder if he is involved in the campaign at all?
This will surely provide more fodder for attacks against the Conservatives.
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I am expecting the Libs have something big up their sleeve for the final two weeks. An RCMP investigation would be just the thing they would pull out as a sort of poetic justice for 2006.
I never did believe that the income trust thing was the reason the Libs lost in 2006 - I think Canadians liked SH ideas and that is why he won; but the Libs like to blame the RCMP investigation, so it wouldn't surprise me if they used that same tactic.
Yesterday, Mike Duffy was repeatedly asking the surrounding reporters on his show to tell him which "big scoop" they had and where waiting to reveal today...Now we know what it is and get braced because that's all the medias are going to talk about before election day. And I thought it was Dion's wife and what she said about Dion himself:
her words -- he's "disconnected from reality" and "impossible to understand" and "lives in an ivory tower."
There's more as Stephies wife also buy's his underware for him amoung other things, no wonder he's such a "Dis is not fear" wimp:
http://www.ottawasun.com/canadavotes/news/2008/09/26/6883106-sun.html
Funny,,PM Harper says there is no investigation going on.Who are these sources??Maybe they should be arrested for spreading this crap.So, who do you suppose would know if there is an investigation going on,the Prime Minister or some source.
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