Canadian politics truly are boring compared with most nations of the world.

What we call a scandal involves about $1 million dollars. … Or is it only $100,000?

The “In and Out” scandal is an ongoing Canadian political scandal involving allegations of improper election spending on the part of the Conservative Party of Canada during the closely contested 2006 federal election. …

Elections Canada places strict limits on campaign budgets in order to provide an even playing field between the parties. …

Large amounts of cash were transferred from the party organization to the individual riding associations that are in charge of running one candidate’s election campaign. The money was then distributed to the volunteers as payments for various expenses. The volunteers then donated that money back to the party. …

It was bogus. It was dirty accounting.

A few honourable Conservative candidates refused: Inky Mark, Helena Guergis, David Marler and Dave Mackenzie.

Good on ’em.

I heard David Marler interviewed on CBC radio’s The House. There’s no question in my mind that In and Out was crooked.

But it’s nothing on the scale of the Sponsorship Scandal (“AdScam” or Sponsorgate), a similar debacle that took down the LIberals and brought the current government into power.

Still, Stephen Harper’s government is racking up scandal after scandal. He never apologizes. Sooner or later one of them is going to crash him.