Raise the Hammer

Thanks Al Rathbone, instead of writing I get to say "Yeah, what he said". Ryan I don't know how you can equate "stimscam" with Adscam. When hasn't there been pork barrelling by the elected party in this country? Yes the practise needs to stop but comparing it to Adscam is just not going to fly with anyone except those who are already committed to a political bias. That, or it is outright disingenuous. Speaking of bias, By Really seems to imply that Adscam served its purpose because after all the country is together. Thankfully the public saw that a great deal of it (AS DID THE COURTS) was illegal. Much of what wasn't illegal was blue ribbon pork barrelling which broadened the taint to the Liberals. Service rendered to the Canadian people was fairly incidental. Then there was the self serving back scratching between Liberal friends who hire friends and relatives of Liberals who did not actually produce anything. That kind of activity is less than a half step from theft and most people would see it as such. Adscam gave Canadians a glimpse into this ethical void and they were mostly sickened by what they saw. The dollar amounts of both these ventures may be vastly different but the ethical scale is totally different. If I am wrong and I am positive I am not, then we can look forward to a groundswell of outrage across the country and the demise of an easily toppled minority government. Bribing us with our money Ryan, I totally agree that is what any level of government does when it promises any spending. There is a strong bias to almost any political article in any Canadian newspaper, if you strive to avoid bias yourself you may wish to question the agenda of such articles. It seems that you seek to both minimize Adscam and at the same time use that same brush to create a "stimscam" of far greater magnitude but with no real substance. I have voted for every political party in Canada some more than once. I try though to reduce my biases because I think it is the right thing to do. If this is your intention too, I think you are missing the mark with this article.