Oct. 30 - Peter Worthington

Oct. 30 - Peter Worthington pretty much sums up my attitude toward all the hoopla over the MPs using Irving family jets and fishing lodges when he identifies the corruption as being on A petty scale:

More serious breaches are when ministers give contracts without mandatory bidding process (like the PM getting DND to buy new and unnecessary ministerial aircraft for prestige purposes.[)] Or ministers hiring their girlfriends for consulting work, or paying them to write reports on subjects they know nothing about; or ministers wasting a billion dollars on nothing; or the billion-dollar gun registry boondoggle that will actually increase crime and violence rather than curtail it. The list goes on and on.

Exactly. The media is focused on a relatively tiny breach of ethics at the expense (ha!) of major boondoggles. Classic diversionary tactic, I mutter. Plain-freaking-diversion. Don't fall for it.

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