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To: abuelita who wrote (6345)	4/14/2005 10:35:08 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

Well do tell what you prefer about it. Liberals are leaving the party these days. One quit yesterday rather publicly causing McLellan to sniff that she would not comment about "cowards" or something like that. Principles = cowardice. Interesting concept. So if you received an order to shoot prisoners in the army, and you refused, you are a coward. I see. Tell that to a million former German army soldiers, who knew damned well you could be shot for refusing an order. Or sent to the eastern front, which was the same thing. Threaten to blow the whistle on stink in the "save the country from the separatistes campaign" and bring a minister down? You know where you would be in the party henceforth. They should give Aube a medal. They will try to make sure he does 2 years to make them look like it was all his fault. For Shame. If Aube does ten minutes in jail, Chretien should do a 100 years. No question Martin is in trouble. Flailing away about health care when it is not even on the table. I think that it is ridicule to think that Harper would dismantle medicare. That is a bit drastic. As far as anyone could surmise they were looking at equitable ways of improving the quality and reducing costs. Thorny issue, as if one wants or needs 2 checkups a year, he has to go to emerge these days and fake it. How do you allow someone to buy extra services when needed if someone else cannot? It is a Solomon-like problem and I would give the Conservatives a lot of credit if they can solve it. Private clinics would cost a way lot less as they shed the present 65% admin cost load right quick without changing service levels only for the "haves". A slight reduction in admin costs of the high salary dudes could save 15%. I think Martin worries too much as he way underestimates the gullibility of the electorate. If they bought the "new broom, who?, not us!" tactic last election, they may well buy the "it was only our closest friends acting without our knowledge... who knew those millions form Quebec were illegal funds?" -- story this time around. A child would scoff at that, but voters, -- Who knows?. There must be a dozen top liberal staffers who consulted with Chretien and Martin on a daily basis that had their hand in the dirt pie. There must have been a nudge, nudge, wink, wink acting there. From what I know about liberal ridings, it is an "anything goes as long as we win" process. If all sorts of liberals knew there was problems with sponsorship, i.e. 100 million = flag waving, then what did they know about those problems? They did say they knew. What did they know? If the head of a campaigns know anything, he knows about campaign funds and contributions - from whom and how. If he does not know, he had opportunity to check, should have checked and should have known. There are reams of regs that are new about campaign contributions and party funds, who was the watchdog on that? Why did nobody check? Because they knew. Martin ordered the commission? Sheila Fraser made it so he had too, didn't she? EC<:-}