Stockwell Day has announced that an investigator will report to him following a probe of alleged wrongdoing within the upper echelons of the same RCMP which has been recently asked to investigate Day himself. And somewhere, a Con is outraged at the suggestion that it might be a good idea for somebody else to handle Day's portfolio until the latter issue is dealt with.
Of course, when it comes to figuring out just what interests are in conflict, it would help if we had any idea whether or not the RCMP was indeed following through on the question of how Day first took over his seat. But either way the answer would be problematic.
After all, any review of Day would simply ensure all the more overlap in time between the two investigations. Meanwhile, a decision not to investigate Day now would itself look highly suspicious, particularly given that the RCMP's initial reason for not following through on Jim Hart's resignation (that it lacked evidence) no longer appears to apply.
That said, there's at least as much need for public clarification as there was during the income trust debacle in 2005. And if the RCMP is scared into silence until Day passes judgment on the pension issue, that may be the most dubious end result of all.
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