Elections Canada Hard on Tories, Going Easy on Liberals

Elections Canada raided Conservative Headquarters and confiscated everything, as if this was, say, Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe, who did plenty of stuff to silence and intimidate his opposition. Or like fascist, fake-democracy Russia under Vladimir Putin (never mind his puppet, whatshisname; Putin is in charge).

EC, obviously dominated by Leftists who don't like Conservatives, obviously is being extraordinarily harsh towards them.

But EC is being extraordinarily lenient with the Liberals, excusing them all the time for pretty much everything, bending (or breaking?) the rules to help them.

Nine of the 11 Liberal 2006 leadership contenders still carry hundreds of thousands of dollars in debts, but Elections Canada says they don't have to pay those debts off first if any want to run again for the party's top job.

Their convenient excuse:

"Nothing in the [Canada Elections] Act prevents a leadership contestant of a completed contest to run as a contestant in a new leadership contest," said John Enright, a spokesman for Elections Canada in an interview last week with The Hill Times.

Would they be this flexible towards the Conservatives? Would they come up with a similarly convenient rationalization for them? Well, that's moot, as the Conservatives pay off their debts in time anyway, unlike the Liberals. (Maybe the Liberals shouldn't borrow money in the first place if they can't repay it!)

Apparently EC has been granting unlimited extensions to the Liberals, as it can. How convenient. Who'd expect them to deny an extension to the Liberals? Why have a rule that says the debts have to be repaid by a certain time if unlimited extensions can enable the debts to NEVER be repaid, potentially? Sheesh!

How nice of the EC for the Liberals.

Not so nice they were towards the Conservatives. They went after the Tories for the same stuff that they let the other parties off the hook for. They didn't raid and confiscate the other parties' HQs. Discrimination, definitely.

The Liberals can't pay off their debts because they aren't worthy of donations. And they aren't worthy of donations because they aren't worthy, period. But EC is keeping them on life support anyway. Nice, eh?

Why couldn't they be as flexible, understanding and open-minded towards the Conservatives, rather than having a police raid-confiscation on their HQ with the media suspiciously accompanying them?

Maybe there's too many Left-wing radicals in the state apparatus...