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Old 08-14-2015, 02:01 PM   #769
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Perhaps the numbers are bigger? The sponsorship scandal was $355 million dollars of taxpayer money going to dubious projects run by Liberal friendly organizations who then donated generously to the party.

The Duffy thing is over the chief of staff in the PMO writing a $90,000 dollar cheque from the CPC to a senator who felt his expenses were justified, for which a trial is now underway to seek out any wrongdoing.

Yes, fraud is fraud 100% of the time much as the trinity and the czar bomb are both nuclear tests, just on a different scale. (In this example the Liberal sponsorship scandal is the czar bomb)
They made a good point about this last night on "At Point" and that was that the one big difference was that AdScam was Liberals but that Martin had no control over them...DuffyGate is the polar opposite. Every single person involved was picked out or appointed directly by Harper. He has had a say in the entire matter. Not only is he lying when he says people have been punished but a large majority, if not all of them, have received more promotions/bonuses etc after the fact.

To even consider for 1 second that Harper had no idea what was going on is laughable. His Accountability Act is a rather ironic now.

I'm paraphrasing and going off memory from last night...but that was my interpretation.
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