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Freakinoldguy: Maybe it's time the Conservative Goverment restaffed elections canada with semi honest people. It's things like this that disgusts people unless of course you're one of those special ones whose politics favor the end justifying the means method of electioneering, legality be damned.
But but but the Conservatives did __________________________. 
TheFonz: Ezra Levant? Really?
Smacle: More of the story.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... laint.html
Curtman: This is not a parallel to the robocall scandal as indicated in the article. It's a parallel to the in-and-out scheme that the Conservatives invented.
The Conservative Party of Canada says it is “agreeing to disagree” with Elections Canada and is dropping an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada of the federal agency’s interpretation of election spending law.
The move is connected to the so-called ‘in-and-out’ scandal which saw the party plead guilty in late 2011 to overspending on advertising in the 2006 election campaign and violating Canada’s electoral law.
“The Conservative Party of Canada plays by the same rules as everyone else; we acted under the law as it was understood at that time,” said Fred DeLorey, Conservative party spokesman, in an email.
“We are agreeing to disagree and will be dropping our appeal to the Supreme Court. We are amending our return under protest to reflect this.”
The party has also agreed to repay the public purse $230,198 for its role in the scheme, Postmedia News has confirmed.
What was the fine? Zip. Repay the money. So why would it be different for the NDP?
At least the NDP didn't waste millions of tax dollars fighting about it in court.
Smacle: "Curtman" said
What was the fine? Zip. Repay the money. So why would it be different for the NDP?
I think that article is more pointing out the difference in public outcry and notoriety of the scandal than the actual punishments.
"Curtman" said
At least the NDP didn't waste millions of tax dollars fighting about it in court.
The 2 scandals aren't even comparable. NDP was raising clearly illegal money from unions while the Conservatives looked for a loophole to spend more of their legally raised money. The conservatives scandal was much more debatable and pointed out how stringent Canadian laws are on election spending. I still don't see why you aren't allowed to spend the money that you've fairly raised...
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