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Originally Posted by Slava
Scary might not be the proper word, but there really are some concerning issues:
- Bruce Carson: 5 fraud convictions and that going unnoticed, lobbying for government funds illegally
- Prorogation of parliament not once but twice
- The Afghan detainee issue and muzzling of whistleblower Richard Colvin (which is why the second prorogation took place)
- Bev Oda and her insertion of the word "not" on an already signed document
- The G8/G20 funding questions
- The "In and Out" scandal (perhaps the most egregious of the all, but its so hard to rank them!)
- Using quotes attributed to the Liberals about a decade ago and claiming that they are regarding spending for the G8/G20 summit.
- The long-form census cancellation and surrounding issues
- The tapes that came out this week (IIRC) which tout Dmitri Soudas as the "Boss of Quebec" regarding the Montreal Port Authority
Let me just put the obligatory "The Liberals were bad" comment to save some of you from typing it. That being said though, there is a real question here. Some of these can possibly be explained away....I'm surely missing some from this list as well.
In some of these cases though you really do have to wonder about the ethics and accountability of this government. They came to power promising accountability and openess and instead this is a short list of their scandals...I'm not even going back to the first term! I'm not adding in things like the doctored photograph from this week. I can see how people would skim over one or two issues...but seriously there are some major issues on that list.
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What doctored photograph? does it make harper skinny or layton fatter?