When A Man Takes Liberties Such As Brian Mulroney Did There Must Be Retribution

Thursday, June 03, 2010 03:45 AM

When a person who occupies the highest office in the country doesn't tell the whole truth because, as he says, "the reason I didn’t tell them, was because they didn’t ask", then no effort should be spared in obtaining the pound of flesh on behalf of the Canadian Taxpayer.

The Oliphant Commission made a very plain observation; Mulroney’s excuses were, "patently absurd”.

$2.1 million from the Canadian taxpayers, a further $2 to $300 thousand from Schreiber, cash stuffed in envelopes. The matter of whether to go after Mulroney should be a foregone conclusion. We the Canadian taxpayers don’t need to wait for someone from the justice department to review the findings; they are there for everyone to see in the Oliphant report.

Let’s hope that the justice department will not deploy the same tactics as Mulroney in extracting the cash from the Canadian public. Get on with it, end of sentence.

And Please Oh Please don’t use the excuse that "he will be ridiculed enough without seeking to get our money back." That won’t and simply should not fly with the Canadian public.

When a man like Brian Mulroney, holding the highest office afforded anyone in Canada, takes these liberties the consequences should be obvious.

I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s Opinion.

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Posted on Thursday, June 03, 2010 03:45 AM in Views by Ben Meisner

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Posted by: SummerSoul on June 3 2010 6:50 AM

There's the man who saddled us with the GST, the FTA and then NAFTA. He is not only a slippery thief but a traitor to the citizens, workers, consumers and taxpayers of Canada.
He should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and his ill-gotten gains confiscated.

I'm SummerSoul and this is just SummerSoul's opinion.

Posted by: metalman on June 3 2010 7:58 AM

I second the motion, Summer.
metalman.

Posted by: socredible on June 3 2010 8:08 AM

By all means recover the $ 2.1 million paid to Mulroney, if possible. Which it probably won't be.

But more importantly, recognise that Mulroney was only the "front man" for others who bankrolled him and his Party to deliver those things SummerSoul has identified above.

THEY are the real traitors to the citizens, workers, consumers and taxpayers of Canada.

And THEY continue to do their dirty work, through hapless minions like Gordon Campbell ~ elected incompetents who could, and would, never be trusted by their REAL "employers" to be anything more than branch plant managers. And have to continually curry favour with them to even remain that.

The Mulroneys and Campbells care not a whit about the people who elected them ~ they've always been more concerned to please their REAL "employers", in their (forelorn)hopes they can bask in the reflected glow of the power of those who pull the purse strings internationally. Truly pathetic individuals, who'd sell their souls, and all of us down the river, for that mess of dubious pottage.

Posted by: Honestjoe on June 3 2010 8:30 AM

I totally agree with all the comments above as well as Ben's article. Will we ever get our money back and see justice done?

Posted by: astro on June 3 2010 11:27 AM

Mulroney caused a great deal of hardship to many diabetics. When Banting and Best discovered insulin, they said it was too valuable and important to have its patent owned by any one person or corporation. They gave the patent to the government. When Mulroney was in power, he gave and or sold the patent away to a private company. The company decided to make artificial insulin rather than natural animal product insulin. Many people have suffered severe hardship because of this. And it has been very difficult for diabetics to get natural insulin, the proper treatment for their disease. This is just one example where political shortsightedness and greed have hurt our society.
This is a bit off topic but it shows his disregard for the citizens of Canada and diabetics everywhere.

Posted by: Eagleone on June 3 2010 7:18 PM

Mulroney (conservative), Chretien (liberal), and Paul Martin (liberal) are all Power corp operatives and insiders.

That entire era was one where Power Corp was the actual governing power in Canada and inside deals were the norm. One could argue if Mulroney should be held to account, than so should Bob Rae (ndp), Chretien, and Martin for example for the sweat heart deals they made for power and influence. NAFTA was negotiated by Power Corp and the final agreement wasn't even read by most of the politicians that voted for it... they were handed the final agreement and voted for it because they were told to... ditto for any other major economic policy of that time. Paul Martin was made a near billionaire when Power Corp sold him Canada Steam Ship Lines for 10cents on the dollar and financed 100% of his 10cents. Chretien's son in law is now the Chairman of Power Corp... Mulroney's law firm is their lead law firm on international trade.

Personally I think they should all be investigated. That will never happen though, because behind it all is the power that moves Canadian politics... controllers of over a half trillion dollars of Canadian mutual funds and the corporate power that comes with those voting rights... there is no way they will allow one of their 'players' to ever have to account to the law of the land. Corpocracy would be greatly weakened if they didn't do all they could to protect one of their own on a level of a former Canadian Prime Minister... otherwise things could unwind as their other paid men realize they may not be protected in the future as well.

On the plus side Harper feigned to fight the political interests of Power Corp (the only good thing he's done, but for all the wrong reasons). There is a slim chance Harper could break with Mulroney and open up this can of worms, but I think he is so enamored with his own power right now he would see it from a personal interest perspective and sit this one out. Harper knows the game that is played and he now sees it as his opportunity to play it with him at the top.

It would be great if I was proven wrong and Mulroney was held to account....