Politicians help tarnish their own image and feed media frenzy, too

Federal politicians were looking for a scandal, CTV was looking for a scoop, and a young assistant lost her job.

TORONTO—While we've all known it for a long time, two events in the last few weeks remind us that if the respect Canadians have for politicians is very low, the politicians have nobody to blame but themselves too.

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