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Clearly I lean the other way, that won't come as a surprise to you I'm sure.
I think there's a balance in both parties however, and really when you look at the political spectrum it's not like you're choosing an apple versus an orange ... it's Granny Smith vs Macintosh.
But every screws up?
I'll give you that, but don't you think this goes a bit beyond that? We had that discussion in the office today and nobody could think of a government scandal as corrupt or shocking as this one in Canadian history.
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I can think of a couple that are at the least very close. Brian Mulroney allegedly received $300,000 personally under shady circumstances in the Airbus scandal.
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I also remember how he got caught buying his wife and kids gifts on state trips and charging it to the Canadian taxpayers. [/b][/quote]
Sadly stories like that are frought in every political group.
Look at Chretien's track record, it's endless. Jet rentals, golf course scandals, it goes on and on.
But people are calling this thing Canadian Watergate. That says something. I think it steps past digressions from both parties in the past and paints Chretiens government as the most corrupt in Canadian history.
The better defence for a Liberal backer isn't an attempt to deflect by talking about Day's oddities or Mulroney's past, but to hope that it doesn't paint Martin and the current Liberal government.