Easy Money

Scott Brison has done a yeoman's job selling the Liberal Party line on Adscam ("Nothing to do with me! Just a few bad apples! Everything was accounted for! We didn't steal it! Well, not that much went missing! It was for the good of the country!").

Now it seems he might have helped put a little unearned money in Liberal coffers.

From Canoe:

For more than a year, Public Works Minister Scott Brison has been asked to provide receipts or invoices to the Kings-Hants Conservative riding association to account for a $4,400 cheque given to him in 2003 while he was a Tory MP.

"It's still not properly accounted for," said Debbie Janzen, who sat on the board of Brison's old Conservative riding association.

The cheque, which Brison assistant Dale Palmeter said was used to help pay down debts from his failed bid for the PC leadership in 2003, was made out to Brison on July 31 that year.

But it wasn't cashed until Dec. 11 -- the day after he defected to Paul Martin's Liberals.

"Nothing to do with me! Just a few bad apples! Everything was accounted for! We didn't steal it! Well, not that much went missing! It was for the good of the country!"