Right now in the news the Liberal Party of Canada is working hard to make giant novelty cheques dirty. Whenever governments spend money, they have traditionally had a big novelty cheque created which the local politicians and the representatives of those receiving the money have a photo op. This has been customary for decades or even longer.<\/p>\n
Yet now that they have demanded billions on infrastructure spending, I find it completely ridiculous that the Liberals feel the photo ops are abuse of tax dollars for partisan purposes. Below is a snippit from the National Post from Saturday February 19th, 2000.<\/p>\n
OTTAWA and QUEBEC CITY \u2013 Jean Chretien, the Prime Minister, yesterday said his government had nothing to apologize for in seeking to reap maximum partisan political benefit from disbursing $1-billion worth of federal job grants across Canada each year.<\/p>\n
He had always made sure since taking power in October, 1993, that voters were left in no doubt that it was his Liberals who were distributing such grants, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen,\u201d he added, \u201cwe are the government \u2026 I don\u2019t see why we can\u2019t try to get credit for what we do. I hope we do so. There is nothing to be ashamed in that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n