Schmiergelder. It’s a lovely sounding German word, isn’t it? Schmiergelder literally means “grease money” and it’s at the heart of the federal inquiry into why former Tory PM Brian Mulroney received three envelopes stuffed with $1,000 bills back in 1993-94. Karlheinz Schreiber, the German-Canadian wheeler-dealer who handed Mulroney the cash, spent four days testifying before […]
