Talk:Grant Bristow

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[edit] Wasn't he also Preston Manning's bodyguard/chauffeur?

As I remember this, wasn't he first exposed as a Heritage Front guy because he was Preston Manning's chauffeur-cum-bodyguard, the implication being that this was an image-slag on Manning, given all the extreme-right rabble in the wings of the Reform Party-cum-Alliance-cum-CRAP-cum-New Tories? It was only because of this exposure that his role as a CSIS mole in the Heritage Front came out, implying that he'd worked to the inside position with Manning as a way to discredit the leader of the new regionalist party? And weren't there a couple of reporters who went to jail for reporting on this whole thing? Am I in danger, in fact, for bringing this up???Skookum1 07:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I see this article's been expanded a lot - but I recall clearly that the reason he vaulted into national scrutiny was because his rightist links/activities/connections were at first brought up because, as founder of the National Front, he was Preston Manning's chauffeur/bodyguard (Manning didn't know about his past or his CSIS status)....as a matter of fact I recall that his CSIS orders had had him get that position in order to spy on Manning. But I guess that's all off the record now, even though it was all over the papers at the time. Funny how things get swept under the rug in this country. Anyway, there are certain turns of phrase in the article that indicate self/vanity-edits like we used to see at Erik Bornmann, so I'm placing the WP:AUTO template as a reminder.....Skookum1 (talk) 16:19, 20 February 2008 (UTC)