Well at least the Liberal Government for Ontario wishes it was.
The Chief of Elections Ontario found today that the dear Grits have offended the Elections Law in the recent Sudbury By-election by bribing one of their own prospective candidates to not run.
I have been meaning for some time now to do a blog on this very subject but today’s announcement by Elections Ontario has forced my hand to get on with it.
The question I guess you are asking of me is did the Grits in fact break the law?
And the simple answer is of course they did.
But the ancillary answer is – of course they should have.
This has been going on since politics was invented. Parties want to win ridings and if it takes a bribe to get a loser out of the way – consider it done – not just by the Liberals but by any party worth its salt.
The only thing the Liberals did wrong – as the saying goes – is that they got caught.
And they would not have been caught had the dud candidate not ‘taped’ his bribe conversations with two of the most senior Grit operatives.
No tape – No case.
Simple as that.
But there was and is a tape and Elections Ontario listened to it.
But there is more to the story.
This matter came up prior to the By-election and the tape at issue was given to the Ontario Provincial Police – you know – the guys whose Union campaigned so hard for Premier Wynne in last year’s Election.
How come then the OPP found no reason to lay charges after listening to the very damaging tape Elections Ontario did.
Good Question.
Could it be that the OPP is in the pocket of the Provincial Liberals?
Another good question and a good reason why Public Service Unions – especially police forces should never, never, be allowed to Unionize.
The matter now rests with the Attourney General – a Minister in Wynne’s Cabinet.
Should charges by laid by the AG?
Yes.
Will they – who knows.
I say “yes” – not because the Liberals did wrong per se – it goes back to the fact that they got caught and for appearances sake they must now face the music.
And although I understand why the Liberals and other Parties before them have quietly gone about this sinister work, they have only themselves to blame since they and their predecessors brought in this legislation which they knew then and know now will never be observed.
They have been hoisted on their own petard.
There is even more poetic justice in this turn of events.
Here we have the worst Government in Ontario history – with scandals galore and billions and billions misspent and now they finally get caught out on such small potatoes.
Remind anyone of Mike Duffy?
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
