Cadman Tape Accusation: Doctoring or Distraction?
Dear Editor:
As a Progressive Conservative I was frequently interviewed by Tom Zytaruk of the Surrey NOW, finding him, if anything, a little too sympathetic to Stephen Harper and James Moore’s old party, the Canadian Alliance. As a Progressive Canadian candidate in the last election I was interviewed by Zytaruk, finding him, if anything, just a little dismissive - until he discovered I had more of substance to say than the so-called Conservative candidate, something hardly surprising because I had been a PC policy wonk while the Con was a parrot.
So the suggestion that Zytaruk may have doctored the Cadman tape is, at best, a little amusing.
Accusations of dirty tricks by dirty tricks prankster James Moore are hardly credible. This is the same James Moore who shamelessly wandered the Liberal leadership convention hall with fistfuls of buttons ridiculing leading Liberal candidate Bob Rae. Just seconds after Rae was knocked out, it was reported, Moore pulled a handful of buttons from his pocket and said: “There’s a reason we handed out so many of these.” Are Moore’s present accusations or his party’s “expert” witnesses much of the same? Who supplied the “North American” “experts”? Is Moore the designated old Reform hit man assigned to distract Canadians from Stephen Harper’s refusal to testify in the Bernier affair? In the neocon world is the prime minister above the rule of law and responsible government just like a “sitting” US Republican president?
Brian Marlatt
Progressive Canadian candidate-of-record South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale
