Explosive testimony

The publication ban on the Adscam inquiry has been partially lifted and the details are even worse than anyone could imagine. Envelopes full of cash, skim money from contracts for which no work was performed sent to the Liberal Party, meetings in restaurants with what sounds like thugs, and it goes on and on.

During his time on the stand, Brault calmly and methodically explained how top party brass browbeat him into writing cheques, handing over cash in unmarked envelopes and paying salaries and expenses of Liberal campaign workers from 1993 to 2002.

Disingeniously, the Liberals claim that there was no record of the kickbacks as such transactions would be meticulously maintained. No self-respecting mob would be that stupid.

James Travers, writing in the Toronto Star, must have spent the last three days crafting this exhoneration of the Canadian media.

Time has been ticking on the Liberal meter for years, slowed only by the absence of a unified right-wing opposition and by the skill of backroom tacticians in trumping growing public anger at the governing party with fear of the alternative.

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While this newspaper has reported since 2002 that the sponsorship scheme's true horror is the systemic looting of the public purse to pay Liberal bills, most Canadians are still behind the info curve.

The reason Canadians are still behind the info curve is that The Toronto Star, like the Globe & Mail, like the Liberal party owned- CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) had no desire to keep Canadians informed of the small details that included Adscam and a $1 billion (with a B) gun registry that still isn't working. The same newspapers and the CBC did their part: they hammered the opposition to death. I call that collusion.