If it was you or I we would have been in big trouble.
But you or I cannot call the Prime Minister and say "Hey, Steve, it is Rahim." Nor do we sleep with a cabinet minister.
Rahim Jaffer can and the VIP, that is the Very Important Persons, the VIP Act was invoked to assist him today.
The former Alberta Conservative MP, he was, can you believe it, defeated in the last general election, was charged with holding coke and driving while drunk late last year in Palgrove, a town north of Toronto. The Globe and Mail reports that Mr. Jaffer was clocked going 93 in a 50 klick zone by the OPP who found coke on the former MP. "The initial drug charge was embarrassing for Mr. Jaffer who had approved campaign ads supporting drug-free schools and getting tough with dealers."
As it turns out it was all a dreadful error. Mr. Jaffer was neither driving while drunk nor did he have any coke. It was just a misunderstanding. He was driving carelessly and "...pleaded guilty to careless driving..." with a five hundred dollar fine being levied. Never going to do it again blah blah blah.
Expect Crown attorney Marie Balogh, who told the court the initial charges were dropped because there was no reasonable prospect of conviction, to be in line for some sort of judge type job.
Thank goodness for the VIP Act.
Stephen Harper, getting tough on crime.
WFDS
It's those damned wimpy Liberal judges again.
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ReplyDeleteThe provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick expressed their desire to be federally united into one Dominion under the Crown of the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, not the Crown of the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, according to the British North America Act, 1867.