Back during the Great Coalition Attempt of late 2008, the NDP sent out a notice to all its MPs for a top-secret conference call with leader Jack Layton and others where NDP MPs learned of ongoing negotiations to establish a Liberal-NDP coalition that would have been supported by the Bloc Quebecois. We know about the contents of that call because some poor NDP staffer sent the notice — complete with the conference call codes – not to Linda Duncan, the Edmonton NDP MP, but to John Duncan, the Conservative MP. Duncan listened in and the tape went viral.
Well the karma has come back.
Minister Jason Kenney wrote a letter this week he thought to John Duncan but instead it went to Linda Duncan.
More importantly, the letter is written on Parliamentary letterhead and its content is a clear solicitation for $200,000 in funds the Conservative Party would use to build “the Conservative Brand in Cultural Communities.” Kenney now stands accused of improperly using House of Commons resources for partisan purposes. Here's the letter:
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When do we get to stop calling them Honourable?
Make Kenney pay back the couple of bucks he used in parliamentary resources.
Great idea!
Hey Mr. Kenney, Have you ever done this before? Is there anything else you'd like to own up to before we, the public, find out? You could apologize and pay it all back and live on the straight and narrow path?
Oh and while you're at it, feel free to blame it on some young staffer or the PMO who didn't know any better and who signed the document for you or NOT.
Speaking of karma, Duncan's parliamentry email was also used for partisan purposes.
http://thealbertaardvark.blogspot.com/2011/02/linda-duncan-call-your-office.html