Blue Like You

Archive for November 17th, 2007

..Maybe Schreiber should stay here.

Last night I was impressed with Craig Oliver and Jane Taber on MDL. They both seemed so reasonable - expressing concern that an investigation would be a waste of taxpayers’ money and could open up a Pandora’s Box of problems.

However, after reading some of the comments at Tony’s and TTT, I wonder if we’ve been ‘had’.

For example, Tony’s reader Durward made this observation:

I think Oliver and Jane are just smarter than the Lib MPs and can see that the Libs will bleed more from any inquiry than the Cons will, inevitably Chretien’s Liberal party will be under the scope and being the most corrupt gov in Canada’s history there is an awful lot left to find, like why would an influence peddler contribute 10,000 dollars unless he was promised something, why would an ex Lib Mp put up his 100,000 dollar bail?

I don’t think Oliver and Jane were being non-partisan, rather they were looking out for Da Boss and the Party.

Unfortunately this particular interview doesn’t seem to be accessible on-line, so I went back to my archaic VCR (yes, VCR!) and reviewed the Oliver-Taber portion.

Craig Oliver said that an investigation would be a ‘political abattoir’; ‘let the Mounties deal with it’; ‘the Government should have the courage to send him to Germany‘; ‘we don’t need a public inquiry’; ‘it would be an archaeological dig into the lives of Mulroney and Schreiber’, and so on.

Jane Taber said she felt sorry for Rob Nicholson; that he was in a ‘no-win’ situation; that whatever he decides won’t be ‘good enough’ for the other side. She mentioned that she had spoken to Justice Gomery about it and he doesn’t want any part of it. According to Jane, Gomery feels it will be a political minefield.

Durward may be onto something. Jane & Craig do seem uncharacteristically pro-Tory on this file. Something is up.

So now I’m doing an about-face and say Schreiber should stay here; but not in Club-fed. He should be in a prison appropriate to his crimes until the investigation is completed.

Triple T’s reader Stan says it nicely:

I watched Craig Oliver burn out a bearing ranting against an inquiry, Duffy and Giggle Taber also were against it.

That to me is a good enough reason to have one. Methinks some liberals are getting nervous.