Posted on 04/18/2005 6:05:37 PM PDT by Pikamax
Opposition questions PM's birthday letter to ad man Last Updated Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:25:05 EDT CBC News OTTAWA - Opposition MPs continued their assault Monday on Prime Minister Paul Martin over the nature of his relationship with the former president of one of the Quebec advertising firms at the centre of the sponsorship scandal.
INDEPTH: Sponsorship Scandal
In question period, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper pointed to a personal letter written by Martin to Claude Boulay, head of the Liberal-friendly ad firm Groupe Everest, on his 50th birthday. In the letter, Martin jokes about Boulay's golf game and comments about his wife's youthfulness.
Martin has said that he hardly knew Boulay.
"Who writes a letter like that to someone he says he doesn't know?" Harper said.
Last week, Martin publicly denied he ever had lunch to discuss sponsorship contracts with Boulay, after Liberal fundraiser Alain Renaud testified at the Gomery Inquiry that he observed the two having lunch during the Liberal convention in 1990.
Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan defended Martin, who was not in the House. McLellan reiterated Martin's position that he never discussed sponsorship contracts over lunch with Boulay.
When Martin testified at the Gomery inquiry in February, he said he'd never had a meeting with Boulay beyond saying "How do you do?"
However, he also testified that he would describe Boulay and his wife as "acquaintances."
"I don't know them well, but I do see them," Martin is quoted as saying in the inquiry transcripts. "I would bump into them socially or at political events in the Montreal area. I have a place in the country about an hour and a half away."
"Mr. Boulay, meet Mr. Bull Manure" (aka Paul Martin)
Somewhere, a simple man from Shenanigan (i.e. Jean Chretien) is laughing his ass off at his ham handed successor, after suffering years of abuse and disrespect, Martin finally outlasted the Little Dictator, managed to rally enough support from the LIEberal Party to become leader, which meant that when Jean rode off into the sunset, Martin became PM.
EVERYone had to know that Chretien intended to "get while the gettin' is good", and left Martin as the fall guy.
In a perfect universe, Chretien, Martin and their many accomplices would end up in a Canadian prison in the same cellblock as Valery Fabrikant, the notorious Concordia University killer.
The shit is getting deeper and the noose tighter.
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