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February 10, 2004

With Alfonso Gagliano heading back to Canada to face the music over the infamous federal advertising/sponsorship program, the Martin government better have a damage control strategy that gingerly navigates between their new standard for ethics and an undeniable involvement with the scandal.

Ottawa is buzzing with the sounds of excited and salivating opposition members just chomping at the bit to lay into Paul Martin's promises of a new ethical regime.  The problem is, before they can implement this new manner of governance, they must first defend their record, as no amount of rhetoric can erase the fact that this is not a newly elected government.

Sheila Fraser will be swift, blunt, and brutal in her assessment of a program with the best of intentions that was derailed by the personal politics of power.  Ms. Fraser has been a welcome presence over the past few years, watching over a government that quite frankly has become stale, sloppy, and worst of all, arrogant.

Question period today should be political theatre at its finest. 

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