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Colby Cosh: "
If there’s a scandal in the Duffy affair, why can’t I spot it?"
"... If I ask what is actually
scandalous about this, I am guaranteed to receive several different
answers. The Conservatives are charged with having considered paying
Duffy’s expenses out of party funds, which, I am told, are “public” in
nature because they are supported by a tax subsidy. The Conservatives
did, of course, contemplate using party funds … but didn’t. And those
funds, though subsidized, exist precisely to be applied ad libitum for
partisan convenience. ..." [And, since when is it a crime to "consider" doing something?]
"... When media scalp-hunters say
the Conservatives were trying to “avoid” or “tamper with” the Deloitte
audit of Duffy, for instance, I find myself saying, “Well … yes: they
wanted to make the audit unnecessary, to hold Duffy to the strictest
view of his financial obligations.” Is that an illegitimate reaction to
an audit?" ...
From a previous post:
Some history on
how "Dominion Day" was dumped in favour of the meaningless "Canada Day":
... In hindsight, it was a case of identity theft, an act of historical vandalism. A quarter-century ago, 13 members of Parliament hastily -- some say indecently -- renamed the country's national birthday in a swift bit of legislative sleight-of-hand.
At 4 o'clock on Friday, July 9, 1982, the House
of Commons was almost empty. The 13 parliamentarians taking up space in
the 282-seat chamber ... The whole process took five minutes. ... a
private member's bill from Hal Herbert, the Liberal MP from Vaudreuil ...
And here are
Mark Steyn's 2015 reflections on the subject:
... let me salute Canada's Conservative government for taking a tonally
mature and historically honest approach to this country's nationhood.
... the usual [Liberal] guff about "what a young nation we are". We're not. We're one of the oldest continuous constitutional orders on earth,
and there was always something queasily totalitarian about Liberal
propagandists' insistence that Canada didn't exist until M Trudeau moved
into Sussex Drive.
... Mr Harper does not share that view. ... Canada's citizenship ministry even hands out copies of Magna Carta to
new arrivals - which in this 800th anniversary year is even more
heartening. So I'm glad we're reconnecting with the half-a-millennium of
history the Trudeaupians tried to bury.
... I shall always be grateful to Mr Harper's ministry for giving us a
decade-long respite from all that Trudeaupian eternal-youth gibberish.
