Chuck Cadman

Bill Casey bid adieu to Parliament yesterday with a classy final speech (the Chuck Cadman story was particularly poignant). Tributes from Peter MacKay, Geoff Regan, Peter Stoffer,Claude DeBellefeuille and the Speaker followed.

And the exercise-challenged MP

Dona Cadman, Feb. 2008. “In an interview with CTV News yesterday, Dona Cadman stood by her story, outlined in the book, that the Tory officials had met with her husband to woo his vote. ‘Two gentlemen had visited him, offered him a million-dollar life insurance policy and a few other things,’ said Cadman, who is the Conservative candidate in the Surrey North riding once held by her husband. Asked whether she considered it a bribe, she responded, ‘Yes, in a way.’”

From the Hill Times.

A year ago now, at the peak of the sound and fury surrounding allegations of bribery and Chuck Cadman, the matter came round, as it so often has, to a question of manhood.

.. in today’s edition of Surrey Now:

The NDP’s Joe Comartin raised the matter of the Cadman tape in QP today, focusing his efforts on Pierre Poilievre’s privileged statement of a day ago.

After QP today, Liberal house leader Ralph Goodale was asked to comment on Pierre Poilievre’s assertion, repeated in the House this morning, about the veracity of the Cadman tape.

From this afternoon’s Question Period.

The Scene. As the House settled in for another Question Period, John Baird wandered by for a chat with the Prime Minister. Stephen Harper nodded. James Moore stopped and dropped off a piece of paper. Mr. Harper looked it over and nodded. Jim Flaherty leaned over to say something. Mr. Harper nodded. Only when Rona Ambrose came over to retrieve a document from his desk did the Prime Minister offer an identifiable grin.

Bill Siksay asked the government about Chuck Cadman this afternoon during QP. Pierre Poilievre was sent up to offer the official “no comment.”

It will come as no surprise to ITQ readers that  we concur entirely with Colleague Wells that Tom Zytaruk deserves a full public apology, and the sooner the better. We also find ourselves nodding in enthusiastic agreement with the words of Former Colleague Radwanski over at the Globe and Mail, who points out that the lawsuit that the Prime Minister filed against the Liberals, and the resulting libel chill, led the rest of us to “let it slide” — with the end result that, more than a year after the allegations first surfaced, we’re no closer to knowing what actually went down during that chaotic week in May 2005.