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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Hey guyy
While I can agree that it is largely rich guys buying power... in this case it was specifically foreign money influencing domestic affairs...
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German money was given to the Mulroney campaign for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives in hopes that he would be easier to deal with... |
Yes, but to what end? I always thought that Mulroney was an American (conservative) patsy, the perfect companion to Reagan. Where does the German angle come in?
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Originally Posted by Sticky
Charlatn, is that really foreign interests or business interests.
I think it is just businesses - wherever they are.
In this case that Schreiber was referring to is probably just German businesses that had an interest in seeing something happen in Canada.
My point is that it is not that they are foreign that they are an issue.
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Ah yes, this is the end. It't not foreign (AKA political) interests that are involved, it is business interests that happen to be foreign. This foreign business influence over local policy is fairly comon isn't it? Didn't the Avro project fail because of (foreign) business interests (was it Boeing?)?
The reason they are dealing with it now, in Parliament is because Harper wants to distance himself from the old PC party. In this light, is well worth the cost and effort to him.