If any people still believe that the Canadian media — and the Global/National Post duo in particular — lean anywhere other than right, this should set them straight. Peter Kent, Liberal-lambasting talking head for Global’s “news” reports, has announced he is running for leadership of the Cons. This article is full of the usual accusations of “criminality” in a case that hasn’t been fully investigated yet, and accuses the Liberals of FUD, a mainstay in Con electioneering.

At least we have the Metro reminding us that not only are the Tories no strangers to scandal, they actually have a proud tradition of it:

• In1873, a corruption scandal brought down Sir John A. Macdonaldís Tory government and cost Canadaís first prime minister the 1874 election. Macdonald and the Conservatives were accused of accepting $350,000 in donations from Sir Hugh Allan during the 1872 election in return for agreeing to give Allanís syndicate the contract to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
• Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney led a government that was dogged by scandal. A dozen cabinet ministers left under a cloud, for everything from kickbacks to fraud.
• In May 1986, then-Tory MP Michel Gravel was arrested and jailed on 50 counts of influence peddling and corruption. And Sinclair Stevens, the-then minister of regional industrial expansion, stepped down because of allegations related to a $2.6 million loan to a family company.

(The only version I can find online is locked in a 37 page PDF, so I’m excerpting at great length.)

And on the Ontario side, lets not forget the Tory gutting of Hydro, and giving the nice bits to their friends.

In light of this, should Kent really be trying to claim the highroad?