Jean Chrétien’s slippery slope

"The monastery is poor, but the monks are rich," Italian politician Rino Formica used to say when corruption was raging in Italy during the 1970s and the 1980s. The monastery was like the government and the central parties' organizations, while the monks were the various ministers and the leeches...

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