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Way way back in the 1980′s Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister of Canada. And Air Canada was still owned by the government. In 1988 Mr. Mulroney met with a dodgy German businessman who wanted to sell Air Canada three Airbus jets. Mr. Mulroney agreed, and in exchange the German allegedly paid Mulroney 300,000 bucks in cash. This is a fairly mainstream allegation, and it’s been circulating the Canadian media for many years. Entire books have been written about the matter.
But only now has an official government investigation been launched into the scandal. The key turning point was the fact that the German guy has recently come out of the closet and openly admitted to giving Mulroney the money, whereas before he was pretty quiet about the matter.
Prime Minister Harper, who was a harsh critic of Mulroney when he was in power, flip-flopped a bit on whether or not to support an official inquiry into the Airbus affair. He has since come down in favor. There had been talk recently that Harper and Mulroney were beginning to make peace with each other, but Harper will now likely be keen to establish as much distance as possible from his predecessor.
