The real irony is if the Libs and the Cons are having problems it is because they both try to get elected in promising to keep Quebec with in Canada. Let me tell you that all that is very entertaining for Quebeckers, either for separatists or not, especially because the non-separatists want to stay in Canada for only one reason; the fear to loose money, (ie, pension, jobs, etc.)

Trust me, I am separatist, but the ROC would have better hate the Quebeckers who don’t want to separate like Dion, Chretien, Chuck Guite, etc.

Yes, the next few months will be fun. Get ready for elections. Dion is so dead in Quebec since he agreed with extending the military mission in Afghanistan till 2011 ( he was politically death even before in Quebec).

Anyway, I want to tell the ROC how I am sorry for all Canadians who just want a functional country. Since 1981, it’s been quite pathetic and sad. You should definitely get rid of Quebec before it is too late!

Here is Ralph Goodale (G&M)

“Under the existing parliamentary life insurance plan, if members cease to be MPs they can keep their insurance but the premiums go up and the benefits go down,” Mr. Goodale said. “Did the Conservatives offer to make up that difference in exchange for Mr. Cadman’s vote? Was that the offer?”

There would be no need for a medical or review.

-In 2005, a prospective Conservative candidate in Ottawa claimed he’d been offered $50,000 for expenses to make way for a star Tory candidate. Harper publicly denied there was a deal, but a subsequent court case vindicated Allan Riddell’s claim.

-In May 2005, Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal claimed he was offered a Liberal sinecure abroad or a Senate seat for his wife in return for scratching his budget vote. Grewal secretly taped the negotiations with then prime minister Paul Martin’s chief of staff and Liberal cabinet minister Ujjal Dosanjh. An ethics inquiry ended up rebuking Grewal.

-Conservative MP Belinda Stronach crossed the Commons floor on May 17, 2005, in return for a seat in Martin’s Liberal cabinet. Her vote, along with Cadman’s, helped the Liberal minority survive for another half year.

-Freshly elected Liberal MP David Emerson abandoned the Liberals two weeks after the Jan. 23, 2006, election in return for a seat in Harper’s Conservative cabinet.

-Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien is currently facing two counts of influence peddling involving allegations he dangled cash and a federal appointment to induce a fellow candidate to quit the municipal race in the fall of 2006. Terry Kilrea did quit, but did not accept the alleged offer. Conservative officials, including cabinet minister John Baird, insist no federal appointment was ever discussed or offered.

- Elections Canada looked into 1 million funnelled by the CP. The party says it didn’t do it, Elections Canada says they did

That means that Duffy is suggesting that one man refused to bring down the government because his family came first? That he put 30 million Canadians on the back burner?

I think Duffy needs to find another job. Either that or Mr. Cadman was one of the sleeziest MP’s we ever had.

The conservative spin will make him out to be the latter. This government will stop at nothing to further their agenda and protect their precious and wealthy butts.

So they offered him 1 million to bring down the government (knowing he would probably lose his seat as an MP and that he was dying) because they were benevolent? Malevolent is more like it.

This man’s legacy may well be tarnished because the money and power is with the Cons.

Guess I am cynical too. Harper scores again. Score - Harper 50 , Canadians 0. When are we going to take down Harper and his team? They have done a lot of damage in two years.

Good call kerouac.

In the interest of transparency there will be a public inquiry that will run for 18 months, cost taxpayers millions of dollars, be handsomely bound and so worded that anyone wading through it will need a long vacation and clorohydrate.

By then have several more political outrages behind us and will have forgotten which one this is.

Or I might be cynical too.

The story here isn’t that influence peddling went on, the deeper story is that Chuck Cadman’s do exist in our politics.
We forget people of conviction come along who just won’t be bought.
I think in this case, all the political squawking in the world isn’t going to diminish his character and what he chose to stand up for, and that’s nothing to be cynical about.:^)

Or I might be cynical.

Sigh.