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OPP investigating affidavit alleging Tory link to mayoralty offer: The Ontario Provincial Police have launched an investigation into a sworn affidavit that claims a senior Tory close to Prime Minister Stephen Harper was involved in an alleged bid to buy off an Ottawa mayoralty candidate...

The Ontario Provincial Police have launched an investigation into a sworn affidavit that claims a senior Tory close to Prime Minister Stephen Harper was involved in an alleged bid to buy off an Ottawa mayoralty candidate...
The affidavit, sworn out by former mayoralty candidate Terry Kilrea, names John Reynolds, the co-chairman of the 2006 Conservative election campaign, as the federal contact in a purported Parole Board appointment offer by eventual winner Larry O'Brien. In return, Kilrea was to drop out of Ottawa's 2006 municipal race.

Nothing proven, innocent until etc. Still, with interest in the Hart affair reviving, the optics are unpleasant.

Hart, meanwhile, is busy fending off allegations he took a buyout to give up his seat in favour of Stockwell Day by ... confirming them. Or at least he is admitting that he resigned, then was paid a hefty sum of money. Not that there was any connection, you understand.

MEANERWHILER: Karlheinz Schreiber is suing the former Prime Minister of Canada, alleging that the latter did nothing -- nothing! -- in exchange for the $300,000 he paid him shortly after he left office. In cash. In hotel rooms. Mind you, given the prevailing state of public ethics in this country, I suppose Mulroney could take that as a kind of vindication.

But what happened to all those Tory demands for a public inquiry into the Airbus affair?