It’s an observation of some out there who observe this in the media and the blogging world that you can tell how serious an allegation against a party or a government is by how vehement the proxies for that particular group deny the allegations, or by how much smearing and obfuscation they attempt to fling at the other side in an attempt to distract from the issue troubling their favourite political side.
If that is the case, then the initial reactions from the Blogging Tories and some online conservative commenter trolls to the Mulroney-Schreiber Airbus controversy and how it seems to have entangled Harper and the Cons are very telling, and several examples are noted in the links provided. Is this a big deal as it concerns the Harper government? I don’t know - too early to say. The proxies obviously think so.
Right now, the mere fact Mulroney’s name is some how connected to Harper, however tenuous that might or might not be, and the fact that Harper had 3 flip-flops in the past week on what type of inquiry to hold - from a cocky dismissal of it with a vague warning about investigating past Liberal regimes last week, to an independent person to see whether we need an inquiry, to now a full blown inquiry - gives the impression to the public something fishy has been going on.
It has led at least 2 pollsters to either conclude that it’s causing Con poll numbers to drop, or that it has potential to do so.
One thing for sure is that it is going to be a definite distraction for the Cons. That “clean government” proclamation they made about themselves may be coming back to haunt them, moreso then any other declaration or statement they have made that has been found wanting.
The larger issue is the PM denying knowledge of "the letters", from Karl.
The denial is tantamount to impeding justice and most assuredly the Justice Minister is part of it all.
Steve should be impeached….in the USA; the country he loves so well.