With a festive Labour Day 2017 in the books, Ontario Liberal corruption trial season can finally get underway. And some of the sad-sack defences Liberal partisans are offering suggests it ought to be more than just two men and two women facing trial. It impugned whole entrenched systems of operation including the Senate and, via the Senate, federal politics as a whole — and what’s more, federal politics’ denizens seemed to realize it. Innocent until proven guilty is a wonderful concept, but it doesn’t often hold much currency in politics. I am not so naïve as to be surprised this would be routine procedure in Ontario politics, but if it is, then Ontario politics should be in the dock in Sudbury along with Sorbara and Lougheed — and politicians ought to recognize that, as they seem to with Duffy.

Source: National Post September 05, 2017 22:41 UTC