Tax Hater asks, "Corruption as bad as Harper.  Why is it impossible to find an honest government?"

It starts in the local riding association, often a group of municipal politicians of various sorts a mayor/councilors/school board trustees/the local dog catcher, local business association members, local "high profile/connected" residents, a lawyer or two, representatives from a couple of community charity clubs...essentially the kind of people who come up on the street and shake hands forever asking themselves, "how can my knowing you benefit me?"

Why do offspring and other family members of former politicians end up in politics Caplan, Chiarelli, Clement, Copps, Crosbie, Fulton, Dewar, Ignatieff, Jackman, Layton, Lewis, MacKay, Manning, McGuinty, Nixon, Notley, O'Toole, Peterson, Rae, Trudeau and Yakabuski to name but a few...coincidence?