Wow, we can hardly stand on our little cat feet today. We've been hit with a wave of Harpergate resignations and revelations and accusations. Excuse us while we pick ourselves up and groom ourselves. (Okay, done.)
For those of you who do not breathlessly check Canadian media every day, news flash: On the heels of the resignation of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff in the Conservatives' expenses scandal, two Tory senators have also called it quits.
From the Senate, you ask? Why, no. These fine folks have not had the decency to step down entirely from Parliament's upper house, despite their alleged respective financial improprieties. They've merely resigned from the Conservative caucus.
We cats say, big deal. We realize that we're talking about a parliamentary system here, but this strikes us as lame. So they're foregoing the free party-caucus breakfasts they get when Parliament is in session? Are they still voting on legislation, albeit as independents? We're not sure we'd want this Senator Mike Duffy guy (above), who bears a striking resemblance to Jabba the Hutt, deciding "yay" or "nay" on issues that affect our lives. Just sayin'.
Meanwhile, the NDP's ethics firebrand, Charlie Angus, is demanding the Royal Canadian Mounted Police open an investigation into the senators' expense reports, and Harper's top guy writing a check to cover them. "I am concerned that such acts may violate the laws that the RCMP is charged with upholding and enforcing," he said. Ya think?
We cats are leaving for Canada later this week. Should be fun.
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