Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government is under the heat lamp for alleged bending of the rules by those in the Tories camp.
We have another incident that has raised the hackles of Canadians from one side of the country to the other.
This one falls in the arena of the hated patronage appointments and the misuse of our hard-earned tax dollars.
Most people have a distaste for the governing party thrusting members of the party faithful into high profile and good-paying jobs.
It starts with an appointment to a tribunal or a committee and reaches to the height of being an ambassador or a senator.
The Senate is often seen as Canada's great joke, and it is a shame to see a cornerstone of Canadian democracy turned into a laughing stock.
Early on, Canada had senators to provide a sober second thought to acts and legislation coming out of the House of Commons for approval before they were passed into law.
Senators were supposed to be wise people who were independent, and not the lapdogs, of the federal government.
Senators would have to pass legislation before it became law on the basis that it would be good for all Canadians and not just a certain sector or a certain party.
However, those days are long gone.
The Senate lost credibility decades ago when Liberal and Conservative governments started stuffing the Upper House with their patronage appointments in order to gain the majority in the Senate.
The public perception is Canadian taxpayers were shelling out money for senators who were marching to the drum of the party that gave them the job in the first place – if they even showed up at all.
This brouhaha began when Canadians learned that Conservative Senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin were having their housing allowance expense claims scrutinized scrutinized.
When the lid boiled off the pot and it became clear the allegations of fraudulent expense claims weren't going to simmer down, both offered to pay back the discrepancies.
Alas, it was too late for the "I'm sorry I got caught let me pay it back so everything is good again" routine.
And it only got worse when the former chief of staff in the Prime Minister's Office cut a cheque so Mr. Duffy could pay back his ill-gotten gains.
This issue is not going to go away until there is real reform in the Senate.
That will only happen when senators are elected by the people who are paying the bills.