Cheque-gate was back in the news yesterday, thanks to the Ethics Commish making a statement that she believed giant cheques for infrastructure funding may have been unethical, but not illegal. That pretty much confirms what I said when Check-gate first became a story. It was a dumb idea, but it wasn't criminal. Kory Teneycke said the same thing on the Power Panel yesterday, as Rosemary Barton was trying to flame the ambers of an expired faux controversy.
They weren't even real cheques! No municipalities were bringing novelty cheques to their local credit union. The logos were on fake novelty cheques, not on the real cheques that were passed out. It was dumb, possibly unethical, but hardly illegal. Other than that, I have nothing to add to this beyond what I wrote in October.
This is really old news and the story is dead - except maybe at the CBC who are always desperate for an anti-Conservative fake scandal. It was wrong and the practice has been stopped. Since the Liberals were doing it for a long time it can just be thrown in with the other fake scandals from the last four years.
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