A Chink in the Harper Narrative? | CIPS
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On the other hand, a personal cheque for $90,000 to cover up wrongfully claimed expenses is understandable. The amount is something ordinary people can identify with. It is about one- third more than the average family makes per year (according to 2010 statistics). It is what’s left on the mortgage. Moreover, the impropriety of the idea that a friendly senator, who has done Harper’s bidding as a fund-raiser and attack-dog since being appointed but has been caught with his hand in the public cookie jar, can just go to the PM’s chief of staff and get a cheque is perfectly clear. Even if that’s not the way it happened, that’s the way it looks.
So the usual kind of government financial scandal may smell a bit suspicious to the average person, but this one really stinks. The Duffy-Wright scandal hits home with ordinary people in a way that esoteric debates over whether the F-35 really is the best fighter, or proper Parliamentary procedure for backbencher’s questions, never can.
The past year has been hard for the PM and his narrative. The idea that the Conservatives are uniquely positioned to claim superior fiscal probity and bureaucratic efficiency has been dashed on the rocks of such things as the F-35 debacle. His mania for total control over the process has been challenged by restless back-benchers chafing at the restrictions imposed on them by threatening to re-open the toxic issue of abortion.
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So the usual kind of government financial scandal may smell a bit suspicious to the average person, but this one really stinks. The Duffy-Wright scandal hits home with ordinary people in a way that esoteric debates over whether the F-35 really is the best fighter, or proper Parliamentary procedure for backbencher’s questions, never can.
The past year has been hard for the PM and his narrative. The idea that the Conservatives are uniquely positioned to claim superior fiscal probity and bureaucratic efficiency has been dashed on the rocks of such things as the F-35 debacle. His mania for total control over the process has been challenged by restless back-benchers chafing at the restrictions imposed on them by threatening to re-open the toxic issue of abortion.
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