Canadian Tory MP forced to resign after breaking campaign finance rules
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From our friends at [url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tory-mp-dean-del-mastro-charged-by-elections-canada-with-concealing-21000/article14547903/]The Globe & Mail[/url], although others are covering the story too. The photo is Canadian Press.
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[quote=Steven Chase]Central Ontario Member of Parliament Dean Del Mastro, hit with four charges under the Canada Elections Act, has resigned from the Conservative government caucus and been stripped of his parliamentary secretary job.
Both the MP and Richard McCarthy, who served as his official agent in the 2008 campaign, also face charges including:
- Exceeding the $92,655.79 election expenses limit for the Peterborough race.
- Submitting an electoral campaign return that omitted to report a contribution of $21,000, omitted to report an election expense of $21,000 and instead reporting an expense of $1,575.
- Allegedly submitting a material statement they knew or should “reasonably … have known” was false or misleading.
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For those of you from outside Canada, Dead Del Mastro is a fairly high-profile Conservative. He's received a lot of press in the last few years for his work for the government, and this is a fairly big blow for the Harper government after a summer-long Senate expenses scandal. Needless to say this will not help come next election - although that's still ages away.
strange....a politician breaking the rules and actually facing the consiquences?
you canadians are weird
[QUOTE=The golden;42319884]The entire Tory government should be sacked, charged, and potentially imprisoned for being legally busted by Elections Canada for election fraud.
But nope. They didn't even get a angry letter or a slap on the wrist.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, the same can be said of a vast quantity of governments across the planet.
[QUOTE=Sableye;42319874]actually facing the consiquences?
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It doesn't always happen.
[QUOTE=Worldwaker;42321997]To be fair, the same can be said of a vast quantity of governments across the planet.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, they should be prosecuted too!
[QUOTE=Sableye;42319874]strange....a politician breaking the rules and actually facing the consiquences?
you canadians are weird[/QUOTE]
Yeah, about that...
Elections Canada long ago found evidence of fraud in the last election but did nothing about it. It isn't until money gets involved that people start getting in trouble.
$93,000 is chump change compared to the stupid as fuck shit McGuinty did.
Hahahahaha that's the best typo ever - 'Dead Del Mastro'
I'm an unintentional genius.
[QUOTE=The golden;42319884]The entire Tory government should be sacked, charged, and potentially imprisoned for being legally busted by Elections Canada for election fraud.
But nope. They didn't even get a angry letter or a slap on the wrist.[/QUOTE]
And this is new? Chretien's liberals should have been charged, McWynnety's Liberals in Ontario should be charged, the Quebec Liberals should be charged, and I agree the Harper Tories should be charged too, but none of them are.
Also the big thing with the senate scandal is obviously Duffy, but a Liberal senator owes over $200,000 as well. People seem to gloss over that.
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