I Wear My Sunglasses at Night.....

You know it's bad when I'm quoting old Corey hart songs. But now that the byelection in Labrador is over it's going to be a pretty slow week for politics in Canada. So I guess I'll comment on the altest revelation coming out of the Gomery inquiry, that being the total cost of the entire sponsorship program since 1994 is a whopping 355 million dollars. Well whooptie friggin do! Let's put this in a little perspective shall we?

2005 - 1994 = 11
355 / 11 = 32.27

So that means each year the ENTIRE sponsorship scandal, per year, was 32.27 Million dollars. Not all this Billions of dollars stuff the Conservatives are shouting from the treetops. Now lets put this into even more perspective.

$32,270,000 / $1,304,066,820,000 (GDP of Canada) = 0.0000247457
0.0000247457 * 100 = 0.00247457

What that means is that the Sponsorship scandal, accounted for 0.00247457% of Canada's total worth each year. That's not 1 percent, it's not a tenth of a percent, that's not even a hundreth of a percent. That's 2 one thousanth's of a percent.

And we pretty much know that most of the money that was put into the sponsorship file actually went to what it was supposted to.

Is this scandal looking overblown to you yet? Me too.