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« I understand why they would want to take credit … MPs have to get elected, and re-elected. But there has to be a line drawn. » (Howard Wilson, former Ethics Commissioner, October 15, 2009)
« La seule conclusion possible du commissaire à l’éthique doit être que cette pratique utilisée par 47 députés conservateurs est contre l’éthique parlementaire. » (Jean Saint-Cyr, L’Acadie Nouvelle, 16 octobre 2009)
« There really is sort of layer upon layer of scandal here. You’ve got not just the use of the logos but the use of individual MPs handing out this money. » (Andrew Coyne, CBC The National, October 15, 2009)
« I’m more troubled in the end by the notion that there might be a pattern to this that has seen money go to Conservative ridings rather than other ridings, and that to me breaks or is more over the line than actually even those cheques. » (Chantal Hébert, CBC The National, October 15, 2009)
« The partisan handouts are just the latest game played with your tax dollars by a government that promised to do things differently. It has blanketed the airwaves with government-promotion ads at a pace six times the rate of any H1N1 public education blitz. » (Don Martin, National Post, October 16, 2009)
« It’s symbolic of something underneath it which is a habit… that says that the public’s money is their own, a program of government that says it’s entitled to use that money to the furtherance of its own partisan political interests. » (Andrew Coyne, CBC The National, October 15, 2009)
« L’argent remis par le député conservateur, Gerald Keddy, n’est ni le sien, ni celui du parti, mais bien l’argent des contribuables canadiens. » (Jean Saint-Cyr, L’Acadie Nouvelle, 16 octobre 2009)
« The Conservative MPs who splashed their names across big stupid cheques are… behaving corruptly by using public funds for personal or partisan political gain. » (Colby Cosh, National Post, October 16, 2009)
« It goes against everything that Stephen Harper campaigned on and against the notion once again that a new prime minister and a new regime was going to clean up the way Ottawa works. » (Chantal Hébert, CBC The National, October 15, 2009)
« Beyond the shameful chequebook politics, there’s an apparent tendency to concentrate stimulus funding in government-held ridings. » (Don Martin, National Post, October 16, 2009)
« Gerald Keddy is not a minister of the Crown. He’s got no business anywhere near that ceremony. This is a corruption of their role. They’re supposed to be watchdogs on the public purse. » (Andrew Coyne, CBC The National, October 15, 2009)
