Every Time Harper Closes In On His Elusive Majority...

Something Blows Up In His Face.

I has happened once again and it has nothing to do with either Ms. Oda or Mr. Kenny - It is all about the Elections Canada and the 'in and out scandal'.

When I first heard about this matter I did not think it was such a big deal - what I understood it to be was that the National Tory Party provided funds to certain Ridings that had not spent their limit and these funds were allocated for the purpose of paying for local t.v. (media) advertising.

If more recent reports are accurate though, what really happened is that the National Tory Campaign provided funds to select local ridings and then immediately retrieved those funds back to the national campaign.

But it was not just a book entry since it is now alleged that this slight of hand entitled local tory associations to very large rebates from Elections Canada and those rebates of course are paid from Income Taxes.

One Riding - the Hull Aylmer Conservative Association, reported that that some $30,000 made their way from Elections Canada to its local coffers.

If you multiply that be the number of Ridings implicated you are soon up in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This is the type of thing you would expect from past Liberal Regimes and not from the Torys.

I suspect that if the Opposition continues to seize on this issue, the favourable tory polls will start to wobble.

As I see it...

'Galagher'