Federal Ethics Inquiry: Posting #3

If you have been paying attention to the ethics inquiry you probably have seen how he is toying with our MPs like children. The reason for this is (1) he knows what has happen from his perspective [whereas some of our MPs where just beginning to think about entering politics when what is being looked into occurred, and (2) our MPs probably have it in their heads that this will be their time in the sun (i.e., make their careers or destroy the careers of others).

However, you can also see how he is possibly trying to bargain with government by showing their absolve/purity (saying ‘listen I am not a threat to you, why do not you let me stay and I will help you to get to the bottom of all this’): silently trying to bargain himself into an arrangement to stop his expedition of which the government would want nothing to do with an arrangement between themselves and him for the sake of the image of impurities. I would imagine he thinks that coming to an arrangement with the government is a long shot but probably worth it for him to afford spending the rest of his life in a German jail.

Apparently the government has been getting information feed to them by the RCMP: this will either go down in history as curiosity of the cat on the part of the government or the government trying to find out how bad things are going to look for them (and it back-fired and instead of preventing or giving a heads-up to mud arising it made them look bad). However, people should not be surprised at the action of the government (not to say it was ethical) considering even probably the most experienced in their cabinet where just beginning their careers (not even at the federal electoral level yet) when what the ethics committee is looking was actually occurring.

While most likely we will find some finger pointing by the main players as they come to testify I serious doubt that to main of them will say either too much incriminating about themselves or each other. As each of them knows how much mud the other has to sling and how much each of them can get the other into trouble they are going to avoid saying anything too much incase of reprisals by the others.