Well, stop the presses! What is this I see? Conservatives allegedly collected illegal donations during the last election run?No way.
They're the squeaky clean 'accountability' party. Have they really jumped the corruption shark?
OTTAWA (CP) - The Conservative party may have illegally accepted millions in unreported donations last year because it didn't understand political financing laws.
Ummm...what??
That's the startling conclusion drawn from testimony given to a Senate committee by the Harper administration's point man on cleaning up government. Treasury Board President John Baird told the committee late Tuesday that his party did not consider fees paid to attend the party's March 2005 policy convention to be political contributions.
However, Elections Canada spokeswoman Valerie Hache says the law stipulates that convention fees do constitute a donation "to the extent that the person paying the fee is not receiving a good or service that has any commercial value beyond its political value."
A real live Tory scandal. And here I thought we were moving into the political slow season. Looks like the pace just picked up again.
You know what they say in politics: if something has even the appearance of being scandalous, it is.
What shall we call this one? DonationGate? We'reJustSoConfusedGate? Don'tBlameUsWe'reToriesGate? Or how about ThereGoesOurMajorityGate?
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