Comment 35546

By alrathbone (registered) | Posted November 18, 2009 at 01:05:39

The conservatives have done what they've done because it was what the opposition demanded for not replacing them.

Say what you want about the distribution (and I think the numbers have been rather equivocal as to whether there was preference, especially given many of the circumstances that have been discussed to death elsewhere), but if you want to attack the efficiency the conservatives simply offered a scaled down version of what the opposition demanded.

The idea that this is some sort of "money in the pockets" scam is a bit ludicrous however.

Almost all the money is going into infrastructure of some sort as compared the the Adscam money, which disappeared into thin air with nothing at all to show for it.

I do have some concerns on the accountability issue however, and worry it will never be addressed, because every party knows they will screw up, and no one wants to have it come out. While all the opposition parties will make a big stink now, the moment they are in power they will return to doing nothing about it. In fact if they wanted to move forward on this file they could force through their own accountability legislation via a private member's bill.

Mark my words the next government we have will be even dirtier than what we have now, and the government after that even more so. It will take bravery, and the cooperation of all involved to make any progress on, and it will require the media to back off with the "gotcha" every time there is the possibility to misconstrue any piece of information as a scandal ie. (waffergate, probably the most pointless scandal in history), because no MP will want to undergo complete scrutiny if the media will destroy their career over the possible appearance of a one in a hundred chance of scandal.

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