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catman
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 Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: Canadian Politics: Alleged financial offer to dying MP |
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OTTAWA - The voice of a cancer-stricken MP who died months after a historic confidence vote came back to haunt the Conservatives on Friday after a three-year-old radio interview surfaced in which Chuck Cadman says party officials made him financial overtures.
In a June 12, 2005, interview on Vancouver radio station CKNW, Cadman said the Tories did, in fact, make him financial offers days before the crucial vote.
"There was certainly some, you know, some offers made and some things along those lines about not opposing me and helping out with the finances of the campaign and that sort of thing. But, again, you know, that's all part of the deal that goes on. It's what happens, especially in a minority situation," Cadman says.
The interview lent credence to claims from Cadman's family that the terminally ill Independent MP - on whose shoulders rested the fate of Paul Martin's Liberal government - told them Tory officials allegedly offered him a $1-million life insurance policy in exchange for his support.
Cadman's widow, Dona - a Conservative candidate - said her husband was livid at the alleged offer, which she said she considered a bribe.
Cadman's daughter, Jodi, also said her late father made a deathbed admission about the alleged $1-million life insurance policy offer and other enticements.
And on Friday afternoon, Holland Miller, Cadman's son-in-law, told CKNW the late MP told him about the alleged Conservative life insurance offer when he returned to British Columbia after the vote.
At the centre of the swirling controversy is a tape released Thursday suggesting then-Opposition leader Stephen Harper not only knew two party officials allegedly made an "offer" to Cadman, but also gave it his blessing.
Author Tom Zytaruk taped an interview with Harper in September 2005 for his soon-to-be-released biography of Cadman. On the scratchy 2:37 recording, Harper confirms party officials made a financial appeal to Cadman.
"The offer to Chuck was that it was only to replace financial considerations he might lose due to an election," Harper says.
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enns
Joined: 02 May 2006
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This is a bizarre case, a lot less clear cut than the Belinda Stronach cabinet affair....
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VANCOUVER -- Finding a life insurer to give you a $1 million policy when you are terminally ill is next to impossible, insurance experts say.
But it is the claim that just such a policy was on offer to Chuck Cadman in 2005 as he was dying from skin cancer and the government of the day was teetering on the brink of defeat that has rocked the federal government.
"If you are terminally ill, you are uninsurable (for $1 million)," said Ken Hunter, a partner with Toronto-based Hunter McCorquodale Inc., which offers life insurance for "hard to insure" clients.
"In theory, there is a price you could charge, but the reality is the price would be more than $1 million. If I'm the insurer, I need more than $1 million to cover the cost of doing business."
While there are some companies that will sell policies to clients without a medical exam, Hunter said the benefits would never reach $1 million.
"I can't conceive of why anybody would suggest that might be possible," Hunter said.
'HIGHLY UNUSUAL'
Wendy Hope, a spokesperson at the Ottawa-based Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association, said insuring a terminally ill patient would be "highly unusual, if not impossible."
Hope said the industry is puzzled by the claim that a $1-million life insurance policy was offered to Cadman. |
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/03/01/4885889-sun.html |
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