And if Canada's right-wing drama queens can get a grip on their undies for just a minute, I have some simple questions about the current "In and Out" Ethics Committee hearings.
- Do you admit (at the risk of over-simplification here) that the CPoC transferred money to local campaigns, then almost immediately transferred that money back to the national party? (I am not asking about legality here, I am simply asking whether you freely admit that money moved in such a fashion, nothing more. Please try to focus here.)
- If you admit the first point, is it your position that other parties did exactly the same thing in the last election? (And I don't mean whether they did something similar -- I mean whether they did precisely the same thing.)
- Is it your contention that what the CPoC did was perfectly legal, and within the rules allowed by Elections Canada?
- Finally (and this is the trickiest question), if you contend that what happened was strictly within the letter of the law, what (hypothetically speaking) could the Conservatives have done that would have made it illegal?
As I'm sure some of you can appreciate, that last question is actually quite meaningful, since it requires one to admit that there are election spending laws that could have been broken -- you just don't believe the CPoC broke them. So I'm simply asking what (again, theoretically) would have represented a violation of the spending laws.
They're all simple questions, and they deserve simple answers.
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They're all simple questions, and they deserve simple answers.
Damn right they do but there's one tiny problem --- you're dealing with simple people, CC.
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