I love it when this happens: Liberal government gets caught in an embarrassing corruption scandal, again. Individual Liberals panic and start looking for ways to keep their jobs.
Here’s one who has danced this dance before:
Alberta Liberal MP David Kilgour says he may quit or cross the House to join the Tories over his disgust at the sponsorship scandal.
Kilgour, who represents the Edmonton-Beaumont riding, said he is already being courted by the Conservatives to switch sides. He said he hasn’t made a decision yet, but will decide soon.
“The Liberal party is seen as looking on the public trust as a vulture looks on a dying calf. Here we are, a G-7 country, acting like a northern banana republic. What country is seen as more politically corrupt than us at the moment?” Kilgour, speaking from Ottawa, told the Calgary Sun.
The Gomery inquiry has heard testimony describing cash-filled envelopes being transferred to Liberal party officials in exchange for government contracts.
Kilgour, who was once a Tory but was bounced from the party in 1990 for opposing the GST, won his seat for the Liberals in the last federal election by a slim 134 votes.
He speculated that if he runs again as a Liberal, he’d be finished.
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