Cadman allegedly Offered Money

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Perhaps when all the selected pieces of Harper's testimony get pasted together, we'll get a better idea of what he actually testified. From the National Post:

"I know that Chuck Cadman did say publicly on numerous occasions after the vote that he had had no offers of that nature from the Party," Mr. Harper testified. "So I would presume, from what I now know of what he is purported to have told Dona, that he must have concluded himself that these were rogue individuals."

Rogue individuals is the term the Liberal lawyer used when asking Mr. Harper to distinguish between Conservatives he had authorized to speak to Mr. Cadman and anyone else purporting to represent the party.

Mr. Harper said that when Dona Cadman first asked him in September 2005 if he knew anything about Conservative representatives offering her husband a $1-million life insurance policy, he did not know her husband had told her about it and did not ask where she heard that. He thought it was a product of the rumour mill on the Hill.

"When I talked to Doug [Finley] subsequent to my conversation with Dona and Tom Zytaruk, and I started to inquire, we started to bang heads together about where this story was coming from," Mr. Harper said.

"Doug told me, you know, he didn't source it, but he told me that he had heard stories about Chuck being concerned about his finances and being concerned about insurance, but he said, in fact, Chuck had never raised any such matter with him."

"My first reaction to the story was it sounded preposterous to me," Mr. Harper added. "I couldn't understand how or why anyone would offer a man with cancer a life insurance policy. It didn't make a lot of sense to me. It didn't sound like a believable story."

Link: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=769402