Do as we say, not as we did!

Those would be red faces that you see around the Conservative Party these days, the Party which claimed government mainly on the backlash of the Sponsorship scandal, has found itself in the middle of its own financial mis-step.

Treasury Board President, John Baird, the point man on the Conservative Governments battle to clean up government, had to inform a Senate committee that his own party may have accepted 1.7 million dollars in unreported donations surrounding its 2005 policy convention. Baird claimed that the Conservative organizers did not understand the financing laws as they existed in 2005.

It would appear tha the Conservative organizers did not read the not so fine print of the Elections Canada Act which stipulate that convention dues constitute a political donation.

It will serve to provide a stellar example of the care that political parties will have to take to ensure they don't violate old rules of political behaviour, let alone any of the new ones that Tories plan on making permanent during their term.

We see a lot of summer reading for political operatives of all parties this summer recess!