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Law & Order: Irony Investigation Unit

Dona Cadman, Feb. 2008. “In an interview with CTV News yesterday, Dona Cadman stood by her story, outlined in the book, that the Tory officials had met with her husband to woo his vote. ‘Two gentlemen had visited him, offered him a million-dollar life insurance policy and a few other things,’ said Cadman, who is the Conservative candidate in the Surrey North riding once held by her husband. Asked whether she considered it a bribe, she responded, ‘Yes, in a way.'”

The Tale of the Tape: Now what?

It will come as no surprise to ITQ readers that  we concur entirely with Colleague Wells that Tom Zytaruk deserves a full public apology, and the sooner the better. We also find ourselves nodding in enthusiastic agreement with the words of Former Colleague Radwanski over at the Globe and Mail, who points out that the lawsuit that the Prime Minister filed against the Liberals, and the resulting libel chill, led the rest of us to “let it slide” — with the end result that, more than a year after the allegations first surfaced, we’re no closer to knowing what actually went down during that chaotic week in May 2005.