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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I heard about this on CBC radio this morning. Apparently Redford herself is claiming to have been unaware of the practice and that staffers in her office were doing this without her knowledge.
If we give Redford the benefit of the doubt and assume that's true, does that let her off the hook? There's some interesting parallels to the Harper/Wright/Duffy case here (if we also accept Harper's word that he had no knowledge of the bribe offer from his chief of staff).
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Heh, well really the only parallel is that politicians love to blame their staffers. The poop rolls downhill and all that. There were a bunch of cases in the US this year as well I remember reading about in other threads.
It's such a common practice you pretty much expect it. I would argue, as I did in the PMO scandal that it doesn't really let her off the hook. You're either corrupt, or incompetent, or both. But it's always worth a shot.