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Originally posted by MarchHare
To say that as Finance Minister he must have known what was going on shows a misunderstanding of that cabinet position.
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To suggest that he did not know what was going on shows a misunderstanding of party politics. Martin's deputy minister and chief bureaucrats can take the free pass of 'we just sign the cheques'. Martin himself cannot.
Even if he didn;t know as a senior cabinet minster (unlikely, but possible), as one of the 2 most powerful people in the Liberal party he knew as a senior Liberal in Quebec. There is no way his party in his province can siphon millions without him knowing.
And even if blind faith allows us to think he didn't know it was going on at the time, he surely knew years before now and hid the truth. If the Libs wanted to say sorry and come clean for the actions of a few bad apples, they had years of chances before this. That they chose not to indicts the whole party. Whether they grabbed envelopes of cash of a table themselves or not is irrelevant.