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When procrastinating from law school, I write about politics, tech, or whatever else I'm interested in. Feel free to tweet me up (@devinjohnston).
Posted by Devin Johnston on October 24th, 2009
The Liberal Party has put together a new site attacking the Conservative Party over allegations that the government is paying for partisan political advertising as part of the distribution of "Economic Action Plan" stimulus money. In particular, the Conservative MPs have come under fire for distributing over-sized novelty cheques with Conservative Party logos and colours to organizations receiving stimulus money. The attack site includes a "make your own cheque" web application, allowing visitors to create fake Conservative Party cheques. The cheque I made, pictured above, is a $1,000,000 cheque to Chuck Cadman, the late independent MP whom the Conservative Party allegedly offered a bribe to defeat the Martin government in 2005. These allegations have received very little attention of late; the Liberals mysteriously stopped talking about them after settling a lawsuit with the Conservative Party earlier this year.
Disclaimer: the attempted bribery allegations against Mr. Harper and the Conservatives were made by journalist Tom Zytaruk and others and have not been proved in a court of law. The RCMP announced there was not enough evidence to support criminal charges in much the same way that they declined to investigate allegations by the NDP that the Conservatives engaged in illegal interception of private communications in 2008.
