The Con Media Finally Goes After Jason Kenney

For more than two weeks Jason Kenney has been rolling around Alberta in his foreign made pick up truck.

Raising money for his campaign to unite the right, while collecting a big juicy pay cheque from his other job in Ottawa.

As our useless Con media looked on and said nothing.

But at last that might changing.

With the editorial board of the Ottawa Citizen demanding that Kenney stop using OUR money to look for another job.  

There are not many jobs where one can get paid full-time to look for other work, but Jason Kenney, who’s busily running for the leadership of Alberta’s fractured Progressive Conservative party, has got one: being a member of Parliament. 

Kenney has been repeatedly criticized for taking an MP’s salary without doing the work ever since he announced his leadership bid in early July. He has never given a satisfactory answer as to why it’s the right thing to do.

For while what Kenney is doing may not be illegal, it is unethical, it reeks of hypocrisy.

His actions are indefensible; even more so because Kenney is a former head of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation and styles himself as fiscal hawk. Aaron Wudrick, the federal director of the CTF, has said, “Politicians are elected, and paid, to do a job. If they are not doing that job, they shouldn’t be getting paid for it.”

With what part of that simple statement does Kenney disagree?

And it is just a blatant attempt to give himself an unfair advantage in the PC leadership race...



But then how can we blame him?

When Stephen Harper endorsed him, and is now also enjoying a long vacation at the taxpayer' expense.

And then there is former prime minister Stephen Harper, who announced in May that he would resign in the fall. Did he need the taxpayers to cover the cost of his summer?

Having apparently forgotten how badly that worked out the last time...



And these are the burning questions that must be answered:

How cheap would Harper and Kenney sell what's left of their integrity?

Perhaps the entitled behaviour of these Conservative politicians wouldn’t seem so bad if they hadn’t cast themselves as guardians of the public purse. In Jason Kenney’s case, he has created an unnecessary ethical issue, all so he can collect three months of pay. It seems a low price for one’s integrity.

And why after ten years of pure hell would Albertans want another four? 

The people of that proud province deserve better.

And Kenney should stop scamming them and resign tomorrow...



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