A Million Dollar Drama

The final cost for the Gomery inquiry which looked into the sponsorship scandal came up to around 80 million dollars. That’s the equivalent of around 50 MRI machines.

The conclusions: some possibly high placed members of the Liberal party took part in criminal activities. The heads of some Quebec ad agencies should face criminal charges.

I think you’d agree with me that 80 million dollars was a lot of money to spend to put a few people in jail and to confirm that some members of the Liberal Party are corrupt. We could have accomplished the same thing with a quick RCM investigation and some common sense. Really, I’d have preferred the MRIs.

The real effect of this eighty million dollar inquiry was to throw the Liberal Party out of power.

It should therefore come as no surprise that ever since the Globe and Mail reopened the Mulroney-Schreiber affair by publishing new information, opposition parties have been demanding a new public inquiry to investigate into the dealings of the two men. Prime Minister Harper initially resisted against their demands, but his hand was forced when Mulroney himself demanded an inquiry.

So let us brace ourselves for a new million dollar Shakespearean drama which will probably send Karlheinz Shreiber back to Germany and conclude that Brian Mulroney was sometimes on the wrong side of morality.

Oh yeah, I forgot: it might also make Stéphane Dion Prime Minister.