MPs Ready To Toss Mulroney Saga To Public Inquiry

“It's our opinion we should wrap it up now, hand it over to the public inquiry to see where they can take it,” NDP MP Pat Martin said Friday. At issue is Mr. Mulroney's relationship with German-Canadian arms lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber, a series of secret cash payments to Mulroney shortly after he left office in 1993, and his $2.1-million libel settlement with the Canadian government that resulted from an RCMP investigation gone public. Rather than clarifying matters, the witnesses and documents seen to date have led the all-party committee into a morass of contradictions. Francois Martin, the former chef at 24 Sussex Drive, told the MPs he only met former Mulroney chief of staff Fred Doucet once to get cash for the prime minister's wife Mila. Mr. Doucet told the committee the same thing. ... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080215.wschreiber0215/BNStory/National/

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