RailGate For Real....Day 2 Preview....

AllTheOaths
ThatFitVille

First up today, for the Crown, will, apparently, be the continued testimony of Gordon Campbell's right hand man, Mr. Martyn Brown....Yesterday afternoon Mr. Brown essentially offered up bromides about the sanctity of the loyalty and confidentiality oaths taken by ministerial assistants like the defendents....Me, I'm looking forward to the the defense having a go at this very fine, and very loyal, fellow.....

Coming soon is (former?) FedLib Rainmaker, and former spouse of former Deputy Premier Christy Clark, Mark Marissen who will testify regarding the defendants' apparent request/demand of future Fed Lib employment....This issue is something we have known about in general terms for sometime....But what we have not previously known are the 'specifics', which were delivered to us on a lede-buried silver platter by Mark Hume in his Day 1 wrap-up yesterday:

.....Mr. Berardino said Mark Marissen, a political consultant, will provide evidence “about job opportunities being pursued” by Mr. Virk and Dave Basi – specifically one as chief of staff for Paul Martin, who became prime minister in December of 2003...

Which, of course, this begs the question....Why would the alleged principals involved in a Pilothouse-assisted bout of influence peddling have any pull at all with a bigtime LibParty appartchik like Mr. Marissen?.....Hmmmmm.....Could it have anything to do with the fact that Pilothouse's third member was former Liberal Party of Canada B.C. president Jamie Elmhirst?....Or could it have had something to do with D. Basi's own bonafides with respect to Small Paul's early decade domination of WestCoast FedLib Riding Associations?.....Boy, it sure will be interesting, to say the least, to see if the defense tries to get to the heart of that matter....


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