Boob of the Week

While there are always boob candidates every week, I tend not to like repeating the same person too often. On the boob-o-meter Bush and Blair always tend to get the highest rating week by week, but it gets kind of boring blasting them all the time, even if they deserve it.

This week, however, there have been boobs a plenty here in Canada. The federal government sponsorship scandal continues to amaze me, both with the blatant corruption involved, but also now on the inept nature of the parlimentary inquiry investigating it.

This brings me to this week's boob, Myriam Bedard. Bedard is a former Canadian Olympic champion who has been in the news recently because of her desire to toot her whistle about the sponsorship scandal, of which she apparently has some knowledge. Bedard appeared before the sponsorship inquiry this week, and made a number of unsubstantiated allegations that appear based on heresay evidence. Now I can understand wanting to help unearth corruption, but you'd think someone like Bedard, as familiar as she is with being in the media spotlight, along with her business experience, would understand that libel can result in a lawsuit.

Now I agree that it is certainly important to get to the bottom of this scandal. But since it is dealing with potentially criminal activities, not to mention the damage it will do to the reputations of those involved, it needs to follow some form of due process. As the days pass the inquiry is looking more and more like a three ring circus.