Last night Paul Martin came out and said:
What happened with the sponsorship file occurred on the watch of a Liberal government. Those who were in power are to be held responsible and that includes me. I was the Minister of Finance. Knowing what I've learned this past year, I am sorry that we weren't more vigilant -- that I wasn't more vigilant. Public money was misdirected and misused.
Allow me to paraphrase.
We know nasty stuff occurred on our watch. We acknowledge that this crap should not have gone down while we were at the wheel. Must have been too busy managing my shipping line to notice. Picking tax havens based on cool looking flags for my fleet is tough work! My bad, yo.
If you are elected to the highest office in the land and you are basically admitting that you were incapable of doing your less important job in the past, what makes you think you deserve to lead this country for another day much less another 9-12 months? I, as a Canadian, demand your resignation, sir. And I demand it NOW.
Anything less is an insult to my intelligence.
1 comment:
The point is not that one party is better than the others at being above corruption. The point is that any party in power for too long becomes corrupted. Its the nature of government.
Democracy works best when we have periodic changes of government. Paul Martin's Liberals have been in power too long and need to be removed.
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