MONTREAL - The RCMP's long look at the sponsorship scandal finally netted a sixth suspect Friday when former federal Liberal organizer Benoit Corbeil was arrested and charged with fraud.
Corbeil, the director of the Liberals' Quebec wing from 1999 to 2001, was also formally charged with conspiracy and influence peddling. The influence accusation relates to his political activities but is not apparently linked to sponsorship.
I suppose the Liberals will ridicule the RCMP for pursuing a "conspiracy theory", to try to discredit the Mounties now? The Left loves to accuse their opponents of "conspiracy theorism" as if conspiracy was something that can't and doesn't ever happen, that it's impossible...
Well, that's one of the charges. Conspiracy. Oh, my, a Liberal conspiracy!
And there's more bad news for the Liberals, who recently tried to make hay of the bizarre search and seizure by Elections Canada at Conservative HQ, including seizing boxes with the Tories' entire case against EC inside, something that I'd swear is a crime to do, as one side in a lawsuit cannot seize the other's whole case against them, right? I now think that perhaps Elections Canada may be guilty of a crime! If not, then let the Conservatives raid EC HQ and seize all their documents, too! Like hell Canadians want the Leftist-dominated state apparatus, which is essentially separate from the government, to tell their elected government what it can and cannot do! A criminal attack against the duly elected government by the state apparatus is a criminal attack against the Canadian People!
Oh, pardon my brief digression, but it had to be said!
Anyway, as I was saying about the Liberals, they may have been thinking that the so-called "raid" by EC agents, accompanied by just a couple of Mounties, presumably for security/protection, and for which the mainstream media and Liberal Party agents were suspiciously present for the very beginning of the infamous visit... was their Hail Mary pass to force an election...
But, nope:
"It is very important to note that the RCMP is continuing its investigation into the anomalies surrounding the sponsorship program," said RCMP Cpl. Luc Bessette as he announced the charges.
"Other charges may follow."
Ok, now it's time to haul all those Liberal skeletons out of the closet, tell Canadians what happened to the nine billion dollars laundered through the mysterious, secretive "foundations", maybe have a few of the three-dozen-odd criminal investigations into Liberal actions during their regime result in criminal charges, etc... After all, now that we're getting back into hardcore political warfare, the Conservatives will be well advised to pull out the stops and order the troops to their battle stations...
It's go time, baby!
