OTTAWA — The Prime Minister's Office was dragged into the Senate housing allowance scandal Wednesday with the stunning development Stephen Harper's right-hand man cut a $90,000 cheque to help Sen. Mike Duffy.
A spokesman for the prime minister confirmed that Nigel Wright, Harper's chief of staff, wrote a cheque from his personal account to help his friend repay inappropriately claimed housing benefits.
Duffy is now irrevocably part of Harper and his crew. I didn't know a soul was worth just 90 grand, unless this was just the final payment.
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All Duffy did was he tried to take advantage of a loop hope in the tax system.
Lots of people do it.
It's not criminal.
He did what practically everyone else who draws a paycheck from the government does.
I must make a note of that. What heading do I put it under? How about "Taking taxpayers money is ok, if you can find a loophole"? Or......"Being a corrupt politician is normal so why waste time trying to stop it"? Or...."Everyone does it so what's the big deal"!
But how about we take it a bit further..........if "everyone" else does it and has for a longggg time then how much money is that costing the taxpayer?
I remember a guy once who complained about the WASTE of MONEY because the London Library left too many lights on at night.
I'm sure if he was a liberal during Martin's days that one of Martin's cronies would have offered to bail him out.
You're "sure"? "Sure" is a pretty positive statement. Based on what?
Religious leaders have always been power hungry.
But that aside........... It is not "perfect people" who enforce the law because there are too many imperfect law enforcers out there. The laws are written to protect the people and bring justice and balance in society (well, most of them)...... so the law is an inanimate object until someone invokes it into action.
Waste is waste. Doesn't matter if it's a municipal government wasting taxpayer money with lights or a senator wasting taxpayer money because he found a loophole (and he actually didn't, he claimed falsely).
I've said a million times......in Ontario and in Canada we have all the money we need and could even lower taxes if we really knew how wasteful our politicians are from municipal to Provincial to Federal. The day will come that because of technology the "people" will be able to vote on everything that is spent by politicians. It's probably a long way away, but it will happen.
So where is Harper standing in front of the cameras and saying that what Duffy did was wrong and abominable to the people of Canada? Did I miss it?
The article writer is right, Harper will distance himself from Duffy as he has from Brazeau, but nonetheless the smell will still linger in the PM office and at the election.
I'll never understand why politicians can't do the right thing that needs to be done when it needs to be done. I don't care what party it is, if you have someone who breaks party or government rules and does so knowingly then they should be gone, history, adios.
Even though the entire sponsorship affair was dust in the wind compared to the excesses of the Harperocracy.
The final results with the Gomery Commission concluded that $2 million was awarded in contracts without a proper bidding process, $250,000 was added to one contract price for no additional work, and $1.5 million was awarded for work that was never done. None of this was right, it was wrong but in the big scheme of things it was peanuts. That's not defending the Liberals or attempting to minimize it in any way, but I honestly think that if Canadians knew how much money was misspent, wasted and handed out illicitly by governments from municipal to provincial to federal.........it would be in the Billions.
Also what amazes me is when governments are asked for information or reports or papers pertaining to a subject they refuse to bring them forward. Politicians are not Kings or Queens, they are servants of the people and using the money of the people! There should be a law if we ask for something we want it NOW...........or out the politician goes!
Linda Frum.....daughter of journalist Barbara Frum.......and sister of David Frum, speechwriter for Harper's hero George W Bush. Need I say more?
