Witch Hunt

Since when is the refusal to dignify a ludicrous waste of taxpayers time and money in the investigation of unethical behavior a breach of the law? First of all this is not a matter of ethics, but one of partisan politics designed to further humiliate the Prime Minister into the optics he has done something illegal. It is the prerogative of the P.M. to offer to and accept the defection of any defeated Cabinet Minister to a position of like kind, if it is in the interests that the Country gains the representation and council of that region in his own Cabinet. Wayne Easter knows full well that being a Cabinet minister in a Liberal government is no more lucrative than crossing the floor to accept the same position in a Conservative administration. Where was the media circus of clamor and kafuffle, and Bernard Shapiro to investigate Paul Martin’s illegal inducement of Belinda Stronach, when she went from being lowly M.P. to Cabinet Minister to gain him the deciding seat in a crucial confidence vote? Now there was a clear breach of ethics and Shapiro did not need anyone to ask him to investigate the transgression, if he truly was a non-partisan, independent investigator at arms length of the government. When asked to investigate the ethics of Tony Valeri's alleged land flips during the last election Shapiro declined for the reasons that he could not do so while there was no standing government in session. Last time I looked there is still no standing government in session…so why is it now convenient for him to contradict his own previous inactions? He botched both the Sgro and Grewal affairs and narrowly avoided a contempt of house vote, thanks to the ethics of the Bloq and Liberals, who can dish to out but cannot take it, when it come losing one of their own seats with dignity. I submit to you that Bernard Shapiro is the individual devoid of ethical behavior and it should be he who is forced to resign immediate, as he has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is both an incompetent and corrupt partisan tool of capricious liberal design.