May 18, 2005

Martin's Office Allegedly Caught in Criminal Act!!!

Mustafa Hirji (email) at 09:28 PM

Gurmant Grewal claims that earlier today he and his wife were offered ambassadorships or Senate seats in exchange for abstaining on the budget tomorrow.

And they have it on tape. (UPDATE: more conversation from a longer clip can now be found here.) The voice is supposedly that of Tim Murphy, the PMO Chief of Staff.

Section 119 of the Criminal Code of Canada has something interesting to say about this sort of act … namely it is illegal.

119. (1) Every one who

(a) being the holder of a judicial office, or being a member of Parliament or of the legislature of a province, corruptly

(i) accepts or obtains,

(ii) agrees to accept, or

(iii) attempts to obtain,

any money, valuable consideration, office, place or employment for himself or another person in respect of anything done or omitted or to be done or omitted by him in his official capacity, or

(b) gives or offers, corruptly, to a person mentioned in paragraph (a) any money, valuable consideration, office, place or employment in respect of anything done or omitted or to be done or omitted by him in his official capacity for himself or another person,

is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

Section 124 is also interesting,

124. Every one who

(a) purports to sell or agrees to sell an appointment to or a resignation from an office, or a consent to any such appointment or resignation, or receives or agrees to receive a reward or profit from the purported sale thereof, or

(b) purports to purchase or gives a reward or profit for the purported purchase of any such appointment, resignation or consent, or agrees or promises to do so,

is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.

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