Rafe Mair has a voice that makes higher purpose people nervous because he articulates uncomfortable truths with brutal honesty and little regard for the comfort of former friends. His experience as a successful Cabinet Minister in William Bennett’s government makes him uniquely worth listening to:

Colin Hansen, our Finance Minister, not only isn’t telling the truth about the HST situation, he is a sniveling, cringing coward to boot.

Folks, the plain truth is this: Colin Hansen asked for the [HST] briefing note more than two months before the election and the issue was not only “on the radar screen”, it was well on its way to becoming government policy – a policy that Campbell and Hansen hid from the people during the election…

Or, as Ian Reid contributed, “HST wasn’t on Hansen’s radar, it was on his desk.”

Read more by Rafe Mair  HST Briefing Memo: Hansen & Campbell Caught Red Handed