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Archive for November 21st, 2007

I was planning to add this Hansard transcript to my post from yesterday, but it is getting a bit long.

Here’s the Redman- Nicholson exchange (around 14:30):

Hon. Karen Redman (Kitchener Centre, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, we know that in 2006 the justice department started to take another look at whether the $2.1 million payment to Brian Mulroney should be set aside but mysteriously the whole process just stopped.

Now the justice minister refuses to answer questions and threatens those who ask questions.

Why all the secrecy from the justice minister? Who stopped the justice department from discharging its duty to Canadians?

Hon. Rob Nicholson (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, I want to be absolutely clear. I did not shut down anything in the justice department.

I think this would be a good opportunity for the member for Brampton—Springdale to get up on her feet and apologize and withdraw the remarks that she made about me.

Hon. Karen Redman (Kitchener Centre, Lib.)
Mr. Speaker, justice department officials wanted to review the Mulroney settlement in light of new evidence that his story had changed, but that was before the cabinet shuffle.

After the cabinet shuffle, when the former Mulroney caucus member became justice minister, there was no more talk of a review.

Will the government confirm that based on this new information it now has relaunched this review and, if not, why not?

Hon. Rob Nicholson (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, the allegations by the hon. member are completely false. They are a fabrication.

I invite her to make those comments outside the House. It is one thing to slander an individual in the House of Commons. I say that she and each of them should have the guts to say it outside this place.

Question: What did Ruby say?

Peter Van Loan and Dalton McGuinty are still going at it.

A reader in the previous post alerted me that McGuinty’s personal attack-dog is courageously defending him though.

Wow, that Hon. Barney Rubble line is clever, Warren.

Right.

Good thing Dalton has you to defend him, boy. That way he can keep his hands clean.