Paul Wells on Adscam

He's been largely absent from his blog as he covers the Gomry inquiry, but this is an interesting take on the Liberal's attempt to deal with the whole mess.

We see, for instance, that it was Don Boudria who called on Sheila Fraser to do her big audit — and Boudria who called in the RCMP. (Oddly, the former minister has not been called before the Gomery commission to explain his role in these events.) And we see it was Ralph Goodale who did most of the heavy lifting in a massive administrative reorganization.

In fact, Goodale sounded pretty impressed with the work the Grits had already done in a speech he delivered two weeks before Paul Martin became prime minister. But Ralph can't talk about that any more, because the anonymous geniuses in the Martin entourage have a better idea. ("This is the prime minister who cancelled the sponsorship program...")