Perhaps every government gets the spending scandal it deserves.
During the last Conservative government’s time in office, it was the G8 Legacy Fund — $50 million used to spruce up a cabinet minister’s riding, nominally for the purposes of celebrating the hosting of the G8 summit in 2010. The auditor general found that Parliament wasn’t informed and no paper trail existed to explain how the projects were selected.
The resulting controversy was big enough that even a young parliamentary secretary named Pierre Poilievre had to field questions about it.
Given that experience, one might have expected Poilievre to be more guarded in his response to the
