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   From: ConsRCons@govt.cda   
      
   But most of us knew that even before he became prime minister.  Seems   
   all the tricks and shenanigans and fraud and misuse of our tax dollars   
   still managed to buy him a majority government.  And now the whole   
   country is watching our lying prime minister doing his best to not   
   answer the sticky questions being put to him in the House.   
      
   Regardless of the greed and entitlement and fraud perpetuated by the   
   senators in question (and maybe a whole lot more of them), the point of   
   exposing this whole scandal is to realize just how far this country's   
   prime minister is willing to go to coverup fraud by those he's   
   appointed.  And that he is a liar.   
      
   That last point means that Canadians will need to question each and   
   every statement the man ever makes.  . . . . whether it pertains to the   
   economy, to free trade agreements, to the tarsands, to monies spent on   
   various programs and purchases . . . .     The man can not be believed   
   or trusted.  That is the key issue, and that should be enough for   
   Canadians to decide they need to take this man and his entourage of   
   liars and cheats and fraudsters out with him.   
   _______________________________________   
      
   Remember, he 'knew nothing about the Duffy repayment issue until he   
   heard it for the first time in the media - on May 15.   
      
   But now we know he knew everything - in February.   
   ____________________   
      
   The House of Commons became a court room on Tuesday, May 28.   
      
        Mulcair: What changed between the time that the Prime Minister   
   expressed his total, absolute support of Nigel Wright, and the moment   
   that he accepted his resignation just three days later? What changed?   
      
   The Prime Minister utterly ducked this question, which is a crucial one,   
   and undermines his assertion that he knew nothing whatsoever about any   
   of all this until May 15. The Prime Minister did not even pretend to   
   answer Mulcair's question.   
      
        Harper: Mr. Wright accepted full responsibility for his error in   
   this matter. He offered his resignation and I accepted that resignation.   
   As we know, he will be subject to an examination by the Ethics   
   Commissioner, and that is the accountability mechanism that we have put   
   in place for these kinds of things.   
   __________________   
      
   Here again is Mr. Duffy’s account.   
      
        So after caucus on Feb. 13 of this year, I met the prime minister   
   and Nigel Wright, just the three of us. I said that despite the smear in   
   the papers, I had not broken the rules, but the prime minister wasn’t   
   interested in explanations or the truth. It’s not about what you   
   did; it’s about the perception of what you did that has been created   
   in the media. The rules are inexplicable to our base. I argued: I’m   
   just following the rules like all of the others. But it didn’t work. I   
   was ordered by the prime minister: Pay the money back, end of   
   discussion. Nigel Wright was present throughout, just the three of us.   
   _________________   
      
   As for Mr. Wright’s presence, the Prime Minister had at least four   
   opportunities to acknowledge it.   
      
   Twice on June 4, Thomas Mulcair asked the Prime Minister who was present   
   at that meeting. Neither question received a straight answer.   
      
   On June 5, Mr. Mulcair returned to the matter of the meeting and was   
   more direct, asking Mr. Harper if Nigel Wright was present at the   
   meeting. The Prime Minister neither confirmed nor denied Mr. Wright’s   
   presence.   
      
   On June 6, Mr. Mulcair tried again, asking the Prime Minister whether   
   Nigel Wright had been present when Mr. Harper instructed Mr. Duffy to   
   repay his expenses. The Prime Minister did not provide a straight answer   
   in response.   
   ________________   
      
   Today:   
      
   Where Harper insisted in June that nobody but Wright and Duffy knew of   
   the reimbursement scheme, he changed his tune Thursday, saying Wright   
   "informed very few people" — all of them known to be key Harper   
   confidantes.   
      
   "Mr. Speaker, I refer the prime minister to Hansard of June 5," retorted   
   NDP Leader Tom Mulcair. "There was no 'very few' in there. It was 'nobody.'"   
      
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