Now the Gomery Commission report has been published there are some important ramifications that arise from it. Not the least is the degree to which Paul Martin and the rest of the present Liberal Caucus should be held liable for the misappropriation of tax money. Since they were elected after the illegal misuse of money was stopped by Martin, their distancing of themselves from the Chretien government's involvement may have some validatity, although how much will certainly be a good point for argument. At any rate we will be having an election in the Spring at the latest, it would seem, if Martin is to be believed. I don't see how he could not do so, now.

Stephen Harper, of course, is still chomping at the bit. He certainly thinks he is likely to be the Country's choice for Prime Minister if an election were to be called now. I am not so sure. I still think there is a lot of distrust for the new Conservative Party coalition, and Harper in particular. His behaviour throughout this whole affair has not played well, in my view, and he looks very much the opportunist rather than the statesman. In addition, his use of personal attacks on civil servants to get at Martin have not gone down well, now that it is known the accusations made by his party were not true. Destroying people's reputations for crass political advantage is not the Canadian way, or should not be, and I think most Canadians are offended by it, except Harper's supporters of course.

Gilles Duceppe, has a different agenda which focusses on Quebec. I suspect an election may increase his support somewhat, but since his party has an overwhelming number of Quebec seats already it is difficult to see what major advantage he could get. One can presume that winning every Quebec seat may lead to a new Referendum, but apart from that all he might gain would be consolidation of the Bloc's current position.

The NDP under Jack Layton are in an interesting position. So far he has followed a course which fitted in with what the majority of Canadians appeared to want, that is to wait and see what Gomery said. In the process he has been able to get some of his party's agenda adopted. Now we know what Gomery has said, the situation may change. If, as Layton says, there is no opportunity for the government to be brought down by a non-confidence motion within the next two weeks, then waiting for a while to consider the situation may be reasonable. The down side is that waiting to think about a problem easily can be seen as an inability to make up one's mind, and that may be a danger for him. On the other hand, perhaps a bigger danger would be precipitant action. Harper badly wants Martin's government forcibly brought down, presumably for the political advantage that would come from fighting a campaign against a "defeated" party. However, he is impotent to do so by himself. If Layton decides to join the Conservative-Separatist coalition to bring Martin down, he may well end up being the one blamed as he is seen to have the balance of power in this scenario.

Personally, I am not sure what the best course of action for parliament would be. Like many Canadians I would like to see the whole report before an election. I would be interested to read others' opinions on this.

I say that we continue to expose the posers and replace them. We also need to replace those who support these folks.

If those in parliament will not do the right thing, they should leave their post. They have all been elected to represent their ridings, not cover each others butts during times of corruption, deception and collusion.

Why do we continue to tolerate this kind of behavior?

Let's face it, do we really need to hear another report from the Gomery Commission?

Cut the politics and let's deal with the problem. Fire them and replace them.

Delays just uncover more sickening and discusting corruption within our governments.

A better alternative will surface as soon as we quit trying to cover up and protect these shysters. Chester

As if the Liberals haven't screwed this country up badly enough, they will now do whatever they have to to appease Layton & his idiotic, leftist ideology. At this point I think the banana republic of Kanuckistan is beyond help.