Angry in the Great White North

Stephen Taylor asks some very pertinent questions:

Will Garth have to return all of the cheques made out to the trust fund?

How will any donor to the trust receive a tax receipt?

What if he has already cashed the cheques and the money has already accrued interest?

Why was a trust fund set up in the first place?

Given the way Garth Turner seems to have implicitly agreed that there was a problem with the way his donation process was organized, and with questions now unanswered about what money went where and where it is going now, I think a full examination by a disinterested third party followed by a public report might be a good idea.

As Stephane Dion's Special Advisor for Riding and Constituency Outreach, a key fundraising role, Garth Turner's own treatment of funds raised needs to be completely above reproach. I'm certain an audit would find nothing that contravenes the laws governing political fundraising.

The sooner the better, since these things have a way of lingering...