Ottawa

Don’t look back in anger (II)

Stephen Harper, March 3, 2008. “Mr. Speaker, the truth is that in the past several months, as the problems of the Liberal Party and its leader have mounted, they have engaged in more and more extreme accusations, going to the point last week of publishing on their website a series of false and unfounded allegations of criminal misconduct on my part. The truth is that this will prove to be in court the biggest mistake the leader of the Liberal Party has ever made.”

Canadian Press, moments ago. “Stephen Harper has dropped a $3.5-million defamation suit against the Liberal party over the Cadman affair.”

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