What's that old adage?

"Where there's smoke... there's Liberals".

-- OTTAWA -- The RCMP was preparing to charge at least one federal official for leaking Liberal government plans for income trusts in 2005 but was foiled when the official secrets law was gutted by an unrelated court ruling, documents and sources say.

This new information appears to undermine the former Liberal government's assurances that there was no advance leak of their market-moving decision to forgo a tax on trusts in late November of 2005.

So what are we talkin' about here?

Transcripts of RCMP interviews with Mr. Goodale and his staff show that, among other things, the Mounties scrutinized consultations between his office and private-sector investment players in the days and hours leading up to the trust announcement.

The RCMP communication lines were released under the Access to Information Act to researcher Ken Rubin.

Yup, I'm shocked... truly.

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