Probe Role Of RCMP In Last Vote

Canadians still don't have a clue what happened in the heat of the last campaign. They don't know why the RCMP, playing fast and loose with procedures, detoured so far out of its way to make sure voters knew Liberal finance minister Ralph Goodale was being investigated for rumoured leaks of his income trust decision. As it turns out, the probe was a teapot tempest. A single finance department official was charged with breach of trust after an exhaustive 14-month investigation. It's a pity, even a national shame, that equal time and energy haven't been applied to explaining the RCMP's curious actions. More than two years later, the motivation for the pivotal December 2005 intervention remains a mystery. ... http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/304195

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