Grits Working on Repentance Spin

CP reports that the federal Liberals will make offers to return the money that several of their party brothers in Quebec essentially stole from the public purse during the infamous AdScam activities.

The Liberal offer of reimbursement is part of the plan to soften the blow of the Gomery Inquiry’s partial report, which will be published on Tuesday morning.

That is clever idea. The Liberals could have offered to return the stolen monies long ago. The evidence, a few times corroborated in the Inquiry, that the Liberals were profiting from the illegal activity of AdScam, has been known for sometime. But they have held off to the moment of the bombshell report in order to deflect attention and to appear honest and magnanimous. Considering the level of political awareness of Canadians, the appearance of honesty and repentance may work. It seemed to have worked for David Dingwal, who promised to return the $2,000 or so that he misspent while at the head of the Royal Canadian Mint.

Crossposted from Civitatensis