That is the theme of Andrew Coyne's column today. I am sure it will be up soon on his blog (it's here).
...You can practically hear them winking. If, as everyone from the Prime Minister on down maintains, there were "no offers" made to Mr. Grewal, they have a funny way of saying so. If the transcript is an accurate rendering of their conversations - and Mr. Donsanjh denies they are - it is simply no longer possible to pretend that senior Liberals firmly rebuffed Mr. Grewal;s persistent demands, or that Mr. Grewal repeatedly refused "to take no for an answer." In all the four hours of tapes, he is never given no for an answer even once. He is given infinite variations of maybe - albeit with a 99.9% probability of yes.
I wonder if PM Martin will still claim that he hasn't heard the tapes or looked at the transcripts today in Question Period. As MP Duceppe said, in his "sorry-as-hell" speech his apologize for not being more vigilant. Will he apologize on this file for being willfully ignorant?
