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Canadian politics, always so dependably and historically dull, rose this week into the realm of high drama. It featured a government that refused to resign, though it had been defeated in a crucial parliamentary vote. It presented disclosures of base bribery in high places that sounded like they came straight out of "The Godfather." Finally, it produced the astonishing spectacle of a prime minister stalling for time on the possibility that two political opponents, stricken with cancer, will either die or collapse within the next seven days and thereby save his government. All told, however, this gave the opposition one...

Canada's Liberal Party, which since the 1970s has both harbored in its upper echelons and implanted in the federal bureaucracy a virulent anti-American bias, is in deep political trouble and could be driven from office before summer. The cause is as old as the country itself – graft and corruption in Quebec – the same affliction that defeated Canada's first government soon after the country was confederated in 1867 and has periodically beset its governments ever since. But this time the amounts involved are astronomically bigger and the misappropriation of public money far more blatant. The current case goes back...

Well fellow travellers it appears there be be a scandal on the horizon. CTV news actually used a blog originating out of the U.S. as a source for a story that is not supposed to told here in Canada. The Gomery Inquiry has a gag order to prevent the publishing of testimony from said Inquiry. That is not unusual for courts and judicial proceedings. However, what is new is that certain American websites are publishing day to day testimony, and EXPLOSIVE testimony it is. In a nutshell it appears our leaders are crooks. Surprise, surprise. Since 1867 we have been...