Luckily, Liberal

That 700k should be confiscated as proceeds of crime!

oh c'mon man
there's taxes on capital gains
1,000/month for expenses, well that's chumpchange
and
he's not robford/evilsteve/gwbush

now about those cancelled gas plants/windmills/samsungcontract/ornge/ehealth

quite the legacy

Not a bad deal for a premier who has put a lot of people closer to the legendary poorhouse with his out of control green shit.

In 9 years the value went up $700,000 (73%) with renovations.

Rosedale real-estate is expensive - the average detached house value is $1.26 million; I find no problem believing that a good location and renovations could get one to $1.7m, all with no chicanery.

The only "problem" here appears to be that the Liberal Party made ... a good investment? Or that Toronto's real-estate bubble is still bubbly?

Or is it just that the law lets pols get reimbursed for cleaners and cable bills and movers? I can get behind that.

'Trying to figure out which street in Rosedale McGuilty lived on.

The Librano$, both federal and provincial, live like princes on the backs of us serfs. To use a phrase that Clayton Ruby is so fond of, especially as it pertains to his client Benjamin Levin, they "have status in the community," "status," BTW, that they've usurped. It's not earned. Their status depends on their wealth, which they've more or less stolen from the honest, hard-working taxpayers of Ontario and Canada.

As for their moral and ethical status: It's in the basement. Living high off the hog, while redistributing the wealth -- well, at least the hard-earned cash of most Ontarians/Canadians, which doesn't usually amount to "wealth" -- is their only imperative, and if it means stomping all over others and breaking laws, that's no impediment. As long as their bank accounts are overflowing and their friends in the hyena media are covering their butts, all is well.

With that kind of chicanery, he'd be an ideal candidate for the Senate. I gotta tell you, I'm getting awfully tired of the thievery - without any consequence.

At least they'll have to pay Capital Gains on that gain, unless the Libs pulled a fast one and put the house into McGuintys name. However, I wonder if they deducted those expenses on their the Liberal Party tax returns, while taxpayers reimbursed McGuinty those expenses at the same time.

As an aside Chow & Layton DOUBLE-DIPPED on their housing expenses.

... The NDP's power couple lives in a $2,000-a-month apartment just steps from Parliament Hill.
To stay in their home away from home, they charged a total of $42,478 for accommodation and per diem expenses. Chow was reimbursed $17,010.20, while Layton charged the maximum of $25,468.

It's within the law,” Chow snapped when asked why they both bill for accommodation while in Ottawa, later explaining they split the rent, about $12,000 each, depending on how much time they spend in Ottawa"

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2010/11/06/layton_and_chow_the_milliondollar_power_couple.html

I don't care. It's essentially irrelevant compared to the gigantic steaming pile McGuinty left behind with gas plants, ORNGE and EHealth. Stay focused, people; it's about the billions, not the thousands.

The timing of this information is quite helpful to Mr. Harper, actually.

It's not just clear to me how the Ontario Liberal Party can choose for itself to invest, roll the dice or spend (your choice, according to taste) $1 million of its own money on real estate, while the CPC can't choose for itself to do the same with $13,500 of its own money on reimbursing a senator for legal expenses.

It will be more than entertaining to see how the media pretzelizes itself trying to rationalize its disproportionality, coverage and outrage asymmetry and abject double standard on this one now.

"Trying to figure out which street in Rosedale McGuilty lived on"

The one between the two with journos living in them... Oh wait, that could be any of them.

Oops! Thought you had said "house"

Rephrase: The one with journos living on them... oh wait, that could be any of them.

Doesn't seem so funny after a botch. ;)

Should designate it as an Ontario Heritage Structure and dedicate it to the stupidity of the electorate.

Tie him onto one of them there wind turbines so he can go round and round and round until he snaps out of it.

It is a hyth that these klepto's never get ahead or face consequences.....in most cases they always do...that's reality.

The only time they face consequences is from emotional events, such as revolutions/civil war.....then it's primarily for losing the war not past misdeeds.