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14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Unbelievable · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Unbelievable · 1 reply · +1 points
14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Unbelievable · 2 replies · +1 points
If we wish to be a modern, just society, we must demonstrate that no citizen, even if he/she is or was the prime minister of the country, is above the law and will be called to account for his/her actions should there be reasonable grounds to investigate such a matter. Mr. Mulroney's ridiculous performance at the Inquiry should be reason enough to conduct further court initiatives to try and find out what really happened.
The ironic thing about this is that Mr. Mulroney has tarnished his 'legacy' further by making these outrageous claims about what transpired in his cash-pocketing adventures with Mr. Schrieber. I suspect if he had just come clean, told the truth about the matter, and asked Canadians for forgiveness, his reputation and image in the eyes of citizens (which his is apparently obsessed with) may have been considerably enhanced. However, perhaps the whole truth is so appalling that he simply couldn't level with us on the matter as it may have been too unforgiveable and/or criminal...?
14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Unbelievable · 0 replies · +1 points
Regarding Mr. Mulroney's response in the Airbus inquiry that he met Mr. Schrieber on occasion "...for coffee": Mulroney knew exactly what he was doing here: If he had just answered yes, he had met with Mr. Schrieber before, the logical follow up question that surely would have been asked would have been "What took place at those meetings?". The sly Mulroney, by adding "....for coffee" in his initial reply, was pre-empting the follow up question by giving this as the "reason" up front. But of course, when Mulroney was testifying, he knew that the main event at that meeting was the transfer of an envelope stuffed with cash, not that they may have had coffee when the cash exchanged hands. Mulroney's answer is akin to a couple of hitmen discussing a future hit at a pub claiming that the reason for their meeting was to drink a couple of beers together.
14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Unbelievable · 0 replies · +2 points
Here are the types of people or "businessmen" who deal in large sums of cash with no records / receipts / documentation to verify their transactions:
1) Drug dealers and their customers.
2) People who sell stolen merchandise out of the back of a truck in an alley and their customers.
3) Other national or international figures who are committing crimes.
4) Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada.
In other words, people deal in large sums of cash with no records or documentation for one reason: They know they are doing something illegal and/or unethical and they do not want others to find out about it.
I am embarrassed that Mr. Mulroney was once the prime minister of my country, and I have absolutely no respect for the man.