You cannot get this straight - getting it straight is not part of liberal values.
I posted on this topic a few days ago:
Message 14871312
Last I heard, the CA has a forensic accountant on the trail and this is what has been reported to date:
nationalpost.com
Chrétien's dealings queried by accountant
Hired by Alliance
Rick Mofina
Southam News
OTTAWA - A forensic accountant hired by the Canadian Alliance said yesterday he has "suspicions" after reviewing public records on the Prime Minister's personal business dealings.
"What I have here is a whole bunch of suspicions. They may turn out to be nothing, but they may turn out to be something very important,"Al Rosen, who heads a Toronto-based firm, told reporters yesterday.
Mr. Rosen -- who said he belongs to no political party -- and the Alliance voiced their concerns after Howard Wilson, the federal Ethics Counsellor, looked into Jean Chrétien's phone calls to the BDC president on behalf of his friend, Shawinigan hotelier Yvon Duhaime. Mr. Chrétien made the phone calls in 1996 and 1997 to then-BDC president Francois Beaudoin to encourage the federally owned bank to lend money to Mr. Duhaime, even though such a loan to the financially troubled Auberge Grand-Mère had been previously refused.
Mr. Wilson cleared Mr. Chrétien of any wrongdoing on Tuesday.
But Mr. Rosen said he had concerns about Mr. Chrétien's other dealings, including those surrounding the Grand Mère golf course next door, which Mr. Rosen said was owned in part at one time by the Prime Minister.
"One of the problems I'm having is that from 1988 to 1995, there are various reports that the golf course lost $2-million. Who financed the $2-million loss?"
Mr. Rosen said he drew upon records obtained from the Ethics Counsellor's office through access to information and news reports to form his observations, but admitted he needed more information.
"This is very much potentially interlinked but we're not sure," said Mr. Rosen, who is accustomed to going into court and obtaining necessary records to draw conclusions, something he believes the Ethics Counsellor did not do. "So give us some information to clear it up one way or the other," he said.
The Alliance yesterday released a chart of Mr. Chrétien's business dealings that was prepared by Howard Wilson, the Ethic's Counsellor, and released under access to information laws. |
