Harper cuts ties to Mulroney

From: Winnipeg Free Press | Date: November 10, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

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By Alexander Panetta

OTTAWA -- In an abrupt about-face, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a review of Brian Mulroney's dealings with a controversial businessman and cut off contact with the man he valued as a political adviser.

Friday's reversal came just a day after new allegations from Karlheinz Schreiber threatened to draw Harper himself into the tangled Mulroney-Schreiber-Airbus affair.

For days Harper had repeatedly dismissed Liberal demands for a probe into allegations involving $300,000 ...

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