[canuckthrow]

I suspect a thread like this on HN will harbour lots of downvotes.

Two points of mention:

1) Whatever this is, it’s small potatoes. The politicians jump on the little things like JT spending an extra $10k here or there. Absolute peanuts, so they make mountains out of mole hills. I have no idea why. Maybe you do.

2) there absolutely is high level play of corruption and political games. To writ, the tidal wave of RE pumping was not accidental, and people claiming so are among themselves passing the profits playing dumb. The pandemic has revealed a tiny part of the corruption-through-nepotism. I say tiny, but the contracts were to the tune of billions.

Unfortunately there isn’t a silver lining here. Again, I suspect it’ll be another thread of people arguing past each other. If you want more of that, you’re more than welcome to visit r/canada or something.

[pessimizer]

> Whatever this is, it’s small potatoes.

If there's anything you learn from reading about corruption, it's that politicians are cheap. They generally sell themselves to many interests cheaply, rather than to a single interest in a big way.