Russ Campbell’s Blog: Mulcair on the Hot-Seat, NDP Not So Sanctimonious Now
All indications are, at least as reported widely in the news media, that the federal New Democrats have engaged in a scheme to use taxpayer money to help fund their party operations in Quebec and Saskatchewan.
The normally so sanctimonious Dippers have allegedly set up a satellite office in Montreal that violates parliamentary spending rules. The office housed both party workers and government-paid workers who are supposed to work exclusively on non-partisan constituency work. The Montreal office was also, allegedly, signed as an NDP office with its party logo.
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, apparently, got all huffy when pressed by reporters. He insisted his party had done nothing wrong, and that duties were separated to ensure parliamentary staff only does parliamentary work and political staff does only political work.
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