Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Bastarache Commission: the hacker, by Richard Martineau
Richard Martineau
07/09/2010 4:40
The Committee Bastarache still a funny, sensitive sound hacker, you can not find?
After all, the Gomery commission was based on facts.
There was an investigation by the Auditor General, information, evidence, reports in the newspapers showing by example that the government had paid $ 550,000 to a marketing firm for a report that no one could find, etc..
In short, this commission was based on the solid. We had every reason in the world of developing.
On sand
However, the Committee Bastarache based on unproven allegations and not proven.
Bellemare said the Prime Minister said such a matter. Charest said that it is false.
No fact, no evidence. What assertions. As Anglos say: "He says, hey says."
Or you believe the Prime Minister or you believe the former Minister of Justice.
Unless a last minute surprise (a cookie hidden in closet that has heard it all), the commission will never succeed in revealing what really happened between these two men.
Doubts continue to float.
Haters will Charest fiduciary principle of presumption of innocence and convict him. Those who love it will defend tooth and nail, saying he was the subject of a settling of accounts.
No skeptic will be confused, no believer will not be converted.
Duelling
In fact, Bastarache is not a commission. It is a duel.
Marc Bellemare has launched claims questioning the honesty and respectability of Jean Charest. Charest went and created a commission of inquiry to clear his name.
At other times (at the time of muskets and top hats), Charest slapped his former minister in public and would have summoned to appear at the edge of a forest in the early hours of the morning with a witness and a pistol.
Contrary to the Gomery commission, the commission took no both been set up to inform people that wash the honor of a politician.
Come see comedians
The LCN network card disseminating board hearings Bastarache. Normal: this is the best theater in town.
Given that such allegation can be proved, it is all about the game and the credibility of the belligerents.
The issue is not "who will tell the truth?" (They probably never would have known), but "SEEMS as telling the truth?"
So we carefully scanning the faces of the two adversaries.
The slightest blink of an eye, a drop of sweat, the slightest tremor of the cheek are analyzed, dissected, skinned.
It's like when the American judge Clarence Thomas was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill.
The Republicans took to him. The Democrats took for her.
But what has really happened between these two people? Nobody can say with certainty.
Our vision of the facts depends on our political allegiance.
A disturbing experience
In the twelfth century, Ibn Munqidh Syrian prince attended a duel between a blacksmith and an old man.
The experience was profoundly shocked.
"Where was the justice in that?," He cried. Where was the criminal? Where was the innocent?"
Damn good question.
Labels: Parti Libéral du Québec, Québec, Richard Martineau
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