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Former Tory cabinet minister, chief of staff to go before Mulroney/Schreiber inquiry

by macleans.ca on Friday, March 27, 2009 12:14pm - 3 Comments

More than a year after the government announced its intention to hold a full judicial inquiry into the Mulroney/Schreiber affair, the first round of public hearings are slated to get underway next week. On Monday, the Oliphant Commission hears from two former cabinet ministers—Progressive Conservative Bill McKnight, who served as Mulroney’s energy minister, and Liberal Marc Lalonde, who worked for Karlheinz Schreiber as a “lawyer and lobbyist.” The Commission will also hear from former Mulroney chief of staff Derek Burney and Elizabeth “Beth” Moores, who was married to the late Frank Moores. The first witnesses were announced at a special hearing on Thursday, during which the judge bowed to Mulroney’s request for “clarification” on his ruling on standards of conduct by reassuring Mulroney’s legal team that he has “no intention of prying into the private affairs of the former prime minister.”

Montreal Gazette

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ripnrobert

This will be the last time we here about this story for so long, it may never come to fruit, some other “human caused disaster”, we don’t say “terrorism”, will likely happen in Canada and the records will be destroyed.Lmfao.
These guys have information about how secret drug money moves around the the globe, that if anything comes close to this information becoming breached the daggers will be coming out.
infowars.com or prisonplanet.tv
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LeenieJ (imho)

i understand (from reading these forums and blogs and others online) Oliphant is a Mulroney appointee, so his “bowing” to Mulroney is to be expected…Gomery didn’t bow to Chretien, as can be recalled; and even had to apologize to Chretien; appropriately.
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ever since Joe Clark was toppled by “schmeergelder” (sp?) something has not been right with the National conservative movement/party in this country. and personal acquaintance/enlightenment (shall we say) has caused me to have little respect for them.
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considering the parallels with both PM Stephen suing us Canadians via Dion/Ignatieff and Mulroney also suing us Canadians for self-inflicted, set up “slander”/misappropriation of “personality”, to attempt to cover up their own misdeeds, and the money laundering of the “in and out” scandal to, essentially, throw our election process, i would not be surprised if money from this major scandal is still in play to manipulate our country and its systems of govt and justice. just because ppl are limited to how much they can give now doesn’t make the money they are giving “righteous”–this is why the scam is called money “laundering”.
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real Conservatives, the few of you remaining that are semi-visible, who have integrity, and who refuse to be part of the disgraceful embarrassment of that unfortunate so-called National conserv party we currently have in minority govt in Ottawa, i salute you.
wayne moores

Does anyone believe that accepting bags of cash in hotel rooms is normal business practice and should be considered a private issue of no concern to the authorities. Just show up at any bank and try to deposit any more than 9,999 dollars in cash and you will quickly find out that it is not considered a non issue. You will immediately come under the scrutieny of the banking system and you may very well be contacted by the legal system demanding an explanation as to where it came from. Oh, also try accepting 300K for “services rendered”, hide it for three or four years in a safety deposit box in a foreign country without paying income tax on it. Then when the authorities are closing in say, oops, I forgot all about it and then pay tax on it. See how far you get with that. You know the old saying ,if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it probably a duck. Cheers.