Dear Steve:

Do you actually do background checks on your candidates?

First we have had Rahim Jaffer's little gong show, which has shown Canadians the sense of entitlement that runs through your party - along with a streak of intellectual dishonesty that harkens back to Mulroney's tenure.

Today, we have another of your MPs accused in an enormous fraud scam. These aren't criminal complaints, yet - but I have to imagine that the RCMP has to be awfully interested in what BOM has uncovered.

I must admit that finding a press release entitled Conservatives Stand Up for Victims of White-Collar Crime on the CPoC website left me wondering - just how do you cope with the cognitive dissonance? It must be positively crippling.