There is a rhythm to these periodic media frenzies over the spending habits of public servants. Inevitably, there is a Globe and Mail editorial, huffing at Canadians’ crabby refusal to maintain their officials in a style befitting a G7 country. It is quite possible to be disgusted by the little bits of waste without losing sight of the large. And the sort of petty grasping that leads people to expense sticks of chewing gum is unlikely to end there. It is, on the one hand, that it did not occur to those who drafted the rules to prevent this sort of thing.

Source: National Post August 25, 2016 00:56 UTC