“Which action sounds more criminal in your mind? Taking bribes, or paying off bimbos?”
Obviously the bribes, as that involves paying government officials to be corrupt and hand out huge amounts of taxpayer money to entities which may not be the best ones to do the work (or may well be the best ones, but that’s not the point). It’s easy to forget that Canada has about 10% of the US population, so $500M is closer to $5B if it happened in the US, and $10M to one person is closer to $100M in the US, and even Obama and Hillary would be hard-pressed to reach that level of corruption, particularly in just one transaction.
The probably with taking that amount of money, besides the fact that it’s illegal, is that it’s hard for the briber to hide a transaction of that size, so it will be noticed. In Trump’s case, it was chump change to him, and if Mueller hadn’t been rifling through HIS ATTORNEY’S records, no one would have even noticed.
There are other kinds of scandal in Canada, it’s not exclusively a Quebec thing. Some are waiting to find the light of day, others have already been exposed. Probably the largest non-Quebec scandals will prove to be bribery of government officials by Chinese interests for economic gain not necessarily in the Canadian interest. The Ontario government had some horrendous scandals involving money wasted in the energy sector. Then we could find some cases where money was supposed to go to fixing up conditions on isolated native reserves and went into some fat cats’ pockets instead. The BC casinos have been laundering vast amounts of gang and drug money. The list is pretty long. Yes Quebec leads the league but there are lots of teams.