Jaffer Associate Invokes Race Card, Nice Try Dude
On Wednesday Rahim Jaffer and his business partner appeared before the House government operations committee to answers questions in regards to their dealings with the federal government. Jaffer is a former Conservative MP who lost a seat he should have won in the 2008 election, his partner a former Liberal candidate in that same election.
The two faced some hard questioning from all parties present, including the Conservatives. The two needed to face some hard questions when it is clear that they have been involved in either, at best skirting the edges of the lobbying rules or at worst, directly ignoring them in their quest to try to get funding for projects their business is supposed to represent.
A principle of one of the companies named as being represented by Jaffer and his partner and applications for millions in grants claimed he didn’t even know his company was involved in the applications. The former Liberal MP said if he wanted to apply for grants he would have done so himself. Makes sense since he would know his way around government grants as well as Jaffer likely would.
Jaffer’s conduct and how he’s involved his wife appears to be at this point the cause of his wife’s resignation and removal from the Conservative caucus.
By all reports, neither of the two men even gave a whiff that something they did might have been unwise let alone downright wrong. It is not surprising that with no indication of any sense of contriteness that the MPs on the committee would be more than frustrated trying to get to the truth.
For Jaffer’s partner, Patrick Glemaud, not only was this attempt to break through a couple of brick walls to find the truth ‘unfair’ — why, it was down right racist. Give me a break dude. There is nothing racist about spotting and calling anyone, regardless of race, creed or colour, on bad behaviour.
Try standing up and taking responsibility for your dirty behaviour. Never mind trying to play the race card like it is a get out of jail free card.
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