Something for the elephants to file away for next election.
| OTTAWA—David Dingwall, former head of the Royal Canadian Mint, has received $417,780 in his now-famous “entitlements,” as one of the last acts of Prime Minister Paul Martin’s departing Liberal government. |
So one of Paul Martin’s last acts of parliament was to pay off a friend almost half a million dollars so that Pauly boy could look good before an election by showing some ‘accountability’.
| Stephen Harper, who takes the prime minister’s oath tomorrow morning, said yesterday the Liberals had misled the public where Dingwall was concerned.
“After months of evasive answers in the House of Commons, we have now learned that David Dingwall’s departure from the Royal Canadian Mint was involuntary,” Harper said in a statement. “This is contrary to the information given by the Liberal government. I am very disappointed that Parliament was misled on this matter.” William Stairs, Harper’s director of communications, said he did not think the new government would contest the arbitrator’s decision. “I don’t think we can. It was a legal arbitration between two parties.” |
We all kind of knew we were going to get stuck with this one. All the preliminary indications were that Dingwall was being forced out. The question still remains… How many more seats would the Liberals have lost if they had come clean and told everyone that they were firing Dingwall?
Once again, we get officially screwed.