Comment: Trudeau doesn't need to justify the fundraisers.    He needs to justify why he made party rules against them then hypocritically went counter to those party guidelines.  That is what this story is really about.    Take responsibility.      The Liberals are handling this very badly - and making the issue worse than it is.      They need to read about Tylenol crisis management (35 years later and still relevant).

The fundraisers themselves are nothing new and not illegal.    And anybody who thinks you buy off a politician with $1500 is naive.     There are countless ways to try to "buy off" a politician and banning fundraisers (or banning politicians from attending their won fundraisers) does absolutely nothing to make politics clean.      

But Trudeau needs to take personal responsibility for the disconnect between party rules and what he has allowed.    That's the only way to move on from this.