As I posted yesterday, Mike Duffy, of CTV, claims that Chuck Cadman told him in confidentiality, that he would never vote against the budget for personal reasons related to his life insurance.
Watching Mike Duffy Live today, I believe that his daughter is probably telling the truth. However, could Cadman have been miscommunicating to his family, the specifics.
By his daughters own admission in the interview today, she says that he only really told her a few sentences on the subject and nothing more.
She seems to accept there could be some kind of misunderstanding as to what took place. She described her own understanding of it as "gray".
I guess my post took such a hard-line, as a reaction to the way the Liberal's are running with this."
The Liberal's who are going out of their way to hold Chuck Cadman up on a pedestal, as the greatest MP to ever live, are basically saying that Chuck Cadman is a liar without calling him a liar.
If the Liberal's are right, and Cadman was bribed by the Conservative's, then Chuck Cadman is, in fact: a liar. You can't get around this fact.
Today, Chuck Cadman's daughter, Jodi Cadman says that her father confided in her about the million dollar insurance offer, backing up her mother's story. She said that her father could not talk about the bribe publicly "while he was alive". Why?
Why couldn't he talk about it publicly while he was alive? He didn't do anything wrong. If Dona Cadman is to be believed, he threw two men out of an office trying to bribe him.
I know this is really insensitive, and all that, but: why should we believe anything that they are saying?
Today, Liberal's are convinced that Harper's mentioning of "financial considerations" in the Tom Zytaruk tape, proves that the Conservative's offered Cadman a million dollars; another one of those great leaps of logic. But I'm not sure that Conservatives ever denied that they would try to help out in the event that there was an election. He was offered an uncontested riding, and told that if he would like to join the party, they could help him financially in the event of an election, if there were "financial issues" for Cadman going into an election.
That's what Harper more or less alluded to in the tape, and in he PMO press statement on Wednesday.
There's another possibility to all of this: that Cadman himself didn't consider it a bribe, but rather an "open door invitation" to come back to the party, with financial assistance in the event of an election. Maybe he was angry by this, because of how the party had treated him years earlier.
Maybe Dona and Jodi Cadman's perception of the story were ultimately different from Chuck's own view on it.
Not to mention that the million-dollar insurance policy is so implausible, considering there isn't a single insurance underwriter in the country that would award a policy to a man dying of cancer.
Also, the burden of proof is not on the Conservatives to prove they didn't bribe Cadman. The burden of proof is on their accusers to prove they did.
Update (my comment at Unambiguously Ambidextrous):
"I think my post may have been worded poorly. I don't necessarily think that the Cadman's are lying. But none of this makes sense.
Watching Mike Duffy Live today, I believe that his daughter is probably telling the truth. However, could Cadman have been miscommunicating to his family, the specifics.
By his daughters own admission in the interview today, she says that he only really told her a few sentences on the subject and nothing more.
She seems to accept there could be some kind of misunderstanding as to what took place. She described her own understanding of it as "gray".
I guess my post took such a hard-line, as a reaction to the way the Liberal's are running with this."
How do you explain this?
Zytaruk: "I mean, there was an insurance policy for a million dollars. Do you know anything about that?"
Harper: "I don't know the details. I know that there were discussions, uh, this is not for publication?"
Zytaruk: "This (inaudible) for the book. Not for the newspaper. This is for the book."
Harper: "Um, I don't know the details. I can tell you that I had told the individuals, I mean, they wanted to do it. But I told them they were wasting their time. I said Chuck had made up his mind, he was going to vote with the Liberals and I knew why and I respected the decision. But they were just, they were convinced there was, there were financial issues. There may or may not have been, but I said that's not, you know, I mean, I, that's not going to change."
One wonders how Brock can bear to seperate Harper's dick from his mouth long enough to eat?
Bart..explain what? in what context? what are we supposed to get from this fragment of a conversation?? A smoking gun? Hardly..
What's your angle?
Not to mention the fact the author is "selling" his tape in pieces no less for $500-$1500. MD intimated that the taped portions that had been released had been edited.
This is such a piece of nonsense and the Liberals have sunk to a low that I never even thought they could sink to.
This from a party that flagrantly paraded Belinda as their new cabinet minister just in time for a vote. This from a party that was actually caught on tape trying to bribe Grewal. This from a party that thinks nothing of stealing from the Canadian public. This from a party that is so power hungry that they will go after a dead MP in order to smear the current government.
Shame on the Liberals and shame on any of you who think that what they are doing is just fine.
I would offer Chuck Cadman an insurance policy for $1M to get him to make a crucial vote too. I'd charge him $10K a month for premiums based on his health situation and I got the cereal box top policy sitting over here somewhere for him to sign on... err where did it go? (real conservative)
I find it amazing how liberals {don}are so skilled with words,must be the results of teacher's union considerable talent.
This whole event is a wonderful distraction to the pathetic actions of the opposition regarding the budget,war,....etc.. bring forward a non confidence vote, it is the right thing to do.
I am confused by much of this story but especially Dona Cadman. The entire story to date is truly strange and I dare the liberals to make this an election platform.
'By his daughters own admission in the interview today, she says that he only really told her a few sentences on the subject and nothing more.'
And Dona says the same thing, she has no details.
2 women, neither asked Chuck any questions about the alleged bribe.
very strange
Breaking!!
Liberal sources are disclosing that there were additional elements to the Cadman bribe!
In addition to offering a patient in the final stages of terminal cancer a one million dollar insurance policy, Harper is reported to have offered Cadman a unicorn, and a magical forest in which to ride his new beast.
Although experts unanimously agree that unicorns, magical forests, and million dollar insurance policies for terminal cancer patients, don't actually exist, Liberal insiders are firm with their allegations.
Said one source close to Dion:
"Look, if Harper can manage to hold onto power for over two years, pass three budgets, a crime bill and maintain his Afghan position, with three left leaning parties holding more seats than the CPC, he can certainly produce unicorns, and insurance policies for dying patients."
Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail is sending its crack team to investigate the obviously legitimate concerns of Conservative unicorn production. Stay tuned.
Ralph Goodale said yesterday that the fact that Harper used the word 'offer' on the tape proves that he knew about and condoned the 'insurance bribe'. Yeah,a proof is a proof until it is proven etc..... And Ralph is their shining example of an honest politician? I wonder if any libs will resign or even denounce this debacle,or will they continue to hold their nose and wallow in their own excretment?
Mike - it's 'Liberals who' not 'Liberal's who'. Ditto for the next sentence.
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