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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
hahaha. See adscam is just a drop in the bucket to this crapshow. Off to jail you all go.
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Seriously?
In one case we have ad firms billing the government for millions of dollars. Shortly thereafter a representative of the Liberal Party would stop by and collect a big fat envelope of cash as a kick back. This is a blatant theft of taxpayer dollars by the party in power. Unless of course you believe that criminal mastermind Guite was the only one involved
In the other case we have Duffy who monkeyed with his expense account and (allegedly) overcharged the government. Upon finding out about the suspect claims Harper insisted that Duffy pay the money back. They should have just hung Duffy out to dry in the first place instead of trying to keep it quiet. Either way someone from the party in power tried to pay back taxpayer dollars, not steal them.
I'm not a big fan of this whole situation, it's sloppy and looks bad whether the expenses are deemed appropriate or not but how are these two things even comparable?
Harper may be a control freak and he rules with an iron fist but I don't for a second believe that he is corrupt, unlike the last several PM's.
Regardless, this will be the straw that broke the dysfunctional Senate's back. You can be sure that either major reform or abolition, depending on what the Supreme Court rules, will be a major campaign issue in 2015.