The Liberals Allege Ministers Attended a Campus Opening Months After Inspectors Probed the College

Global News Canada reports that the Liberals alleged Wednesday that cabinet ministers attended the campus opening of one of the suspected colleges mere months after the school was probed by government inspectors. The timing is the allegation: an inspection and a ribbon-cutting are not the same kind of event, and the claim is that a government put its face behind an institution that regulators had already visited. Attendance is neither a contract nor a payment. It is the cheapest and most deniable form of political connection, which is exactly why it is worth noticing when the institution in question is already under scrutiny — and why the ministers' presence is being contested as a signal rather than treated as a proven favour.