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Tag Archives: John Gomery
The Queen’s YouTube channel, John Hughes’ pen pal, and a religious conversion reality TV show
Newsmakers of the week
Megapundit: James Moore, son of Trudeau?
Must-reads: Don Martin on Gomery’s comeuppance; Susan Riley on the cabinet shuffle; Richard Gwyn on the Green Shift.
Inkless Wells takes a trip down Gomerian memory lane …
Or perhaps a tour of the Gomerytham sewer system in a glass-bottomed boat. Let’s just hope he leaves a trail of breadcrumbs so he can find his way back to the present day:
A nasty business: Memories of Gomery (IV)
I spent several weeks in Montreal covering the Gomery commission hearings in 2005. Despite my earlier posts today, which detail shoddy work by the Gomery crew, it is true that anyone who sat through those hearings could only shake his head at how sleazy the sponsorship scandal was. Here are three of my pieces from that period.
Mr. Martin’s gentle ride: Memories of Gomery (II)
Feb. 10, 2005. Commission counsel Neil Finkelstein is careful not to rattle the ice cubes in Paul Martin’s glass as he delivers the gentlest interrogation in the history of ever. Ooh. Ooh, Mr. Martin, could you maybe grace this court with rousing tales of your victory over the deficit? You bet he can:
I’ve been working on the railroad: memories of Gomery (I)
Return with us now to the thrilling days of Feb. 8, 2005, when Jean Chrétien testified at the Gomery Commission on Ratifying Paul Martin’s Preferred Campaign Narrative. (All transcripts are available here.) Jacques Bernard Roy is commission lead counsel. (Not “council.” Thanks to Mark Bourrie for spelling assistance. Sigh.) His witness, Jean Chrétien, has been exhaustively pre-interviewed, his lawyers briefed on all areas of potential questioning. Or so he thought. But what’s this?
Gloating via proxy: Liveblogging Jean Chrétien’s “spokespersons and lawyers” on the Gomery decision
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Death of a dog and pony show
I am very sorry, though unsurprised, that the massive online archive of testimony from John Gomery’s now utterly discredited vanity parade has now been removed from the innertubes, because I would have liked to point to specific incidents of towering boneheadedness on the part of Judge Gomery and his cast of twits for posterity’s sake.
BTC: The gloat
Mr. Chretien’s lawyers are due to be in the National Press Theatre at 1pm. The gloating should be palpable.