save me your sanctimony.
comparing Tories to the Liberals is a bit like comparing a J-walker to a serial rapist.
People make the Mulroney resignations out to be huge 'scandals"...give me a break. You didn't mention that the Liberals had to apologize to Mulroney, or that Sinc Stevens was just exonnerated recently for "tainted tuna". Your "influence peddling" - which sounds terrible - refers to Charest, who called a judge and then apologised? oooh!!!
Considering the mess Mulroney inherited from Trudeau, not to mention ridiculous inflation and an Opposition that cried bloody murder every time the Conservatives tried to do anything (de-indexing pensions?), it is amazing what he accomplished. To be sure, the GST and Free Trade led to the conditions where a grade-school kid could balance the books in the 90's. Not to mention the gall the Liberals had in down-loading their deficits onto the provinces.....bravo!
Unreal...
Let's consider e few Liberals screw-ups and scandals over 12 years:
- Shawinigate
(most PM's would be in jail)
- APEC pepper spray incident
(PMO's interference in RCMP efforts)
- HRDC boondoggle
(Liberal slush fund...$billion wasted...."what is a billion $?" - Chretien)
- Tainted Blood
(scnadalous, and heartless...they refused to pay compensation to a whack of people who got Hep C from the socialist health system)
- Mulroney lawsuit
( the Liberals had to apologize and pay damages for falsely accusing the previous PM of receiving kickbacks for an Airbus deal....ironic that the Liberals appear to have been caught in a kickback scheme, no?)
- Pearson Airport deal
(ridiculous waste of money for partisan purposes)
- Helicopter deal
(ditto...plus, they have endangered the Canadian military unnecessarily)
- GST
(promised to scrap it to win an election, then not only kept it, but expanded it and reaped the financial rewards for a tax that they professed to loathe...typical)
- Free Trade
(said they would scrap the deal unless it was renegotiated...won election partly based on this promise....not only did not review or scrap it, but expanded Canada's involvement in NAFTA)
- Gun Registry
(registry program was to cost $2 million....is approaching $2 billion with no end in sight, and has solved nothing)
- Challenger Jets
(the Conservatives were crucified for the purchase of a luxury jet for the PMO...Chretien elected after saying Canadian politicians don't need "Cadillacs"....decided once entrenched in power to buy two luxury jets - which were not needed - at a cost of $100 million via untendered contract)
- CSL Grants
(the PM's company received grants from taxpayers....think about it.....all the while, CSL flew flags of convenience)
- Irving weekends
(self explanatory, I hope)
- flags to fight separatists
($30 million for flags with no eyelets; untendered overseas contract for "patriotic" display)
-"he is not a moron, he's a friend of mine"
(how to apologize for offending your best friend)
-“ damn Americans, I hate those bastards”
(how to diplomatically disagree with your best friend)
- Iraq war
(Canada didn't go to Iraq because "it was not sanctioned by the UN"...funny, but the same Liberals opposed the first (UN sanctioned) Gulf War, and sent assets to Kosovo for a (non-UN sanctioned) War........plus, we had soldiers in Iraq under US command)
- SGRO stripper
(the Immigration Minister allowed queue-jumping for help in an election campaign)
And the Mother OF All Scandals...ADSCAM.
Kickbacks for free election work.
wow.
And that's just off the top of my head.
So please spare me the "they're all the same" bullshit.
LIBERALS are the problem.