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On the first sitting day of the House of Commons since her defection, former Conservative MP Eve Adams kept a low profile. Anyone looking for a preview of how she would stack up in debate against Finance Minister Joe Oliver in the GTA riding of Eglinton-Lawrence will have to wait.

But it will take more than a few bouts of sparring in question period to put Liberal minds to rest over the latest addition to Justin Trudeaus caucus.

A week after the Liberal leader rolled out the red carpet for Adamss floor crossing the episode remains a mystery wrapped in an enigma for most Liberals.

On that score a weekend trip to Vancouver that featured a handful of conversations with veteran party insiders on the West Coast mostly confirmed that the move has baffled Liberals from coast to coast.

Those insiders like most observers start from the premise that Trudeaus team of advisers is a seasoned one. In their minds, such battle-hardened strategists would or should have expected both the editorial backlash and the internal discontent that attended the decision to bring Adams and by the same token former Stephen Harper confidant Dimitri Soudas on board.

Few buy the line that Adams is so ideally placed to take on Oliver on the battlefield of the Conservative income-splitting measure as to be worth her weight in political gold.

As flawed as the policy of allowing parents to split their income for tax purposes may be, it does not have the legs to move mountains of votes that a tax hike for instance would have.

In the same breath, most of them dismiss the notion that Soudas has such invaluable insights on what makes a now-familiar prime minister tick on a debate podium as suggested among others by former Conservative minister Stockwell Day as to make signing up his fiance an irresistible proposition.

If anything, Adamss inclusion on the Trudeau team has more to do with a dogged Liberal quest for deterrence on the field of dirty tricks than with making inroads in voting intentions.

Conservative spin doctors have been quietly bragging about having collected dirt on Trudeau ever since he ran for the leadership.

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Education Minister Joy Burch listens to questions about a controversy involving her son volunteering in schools without a valid permit.

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr and Education Minister Joy Burch have accused the Canberra Liberals of using "grubby tactics" and stooping to new lows, following questions about a recent controversy involving Ms Burch's son.

Earlier this month it emerged in local Fairfax media reports that ACT authorities had fined mentoring group Menslink $2,500, after they admitted allowing Ms Burch's son to volunteer at schools last year without a valid working with vulnerable people card.

At the time Lloyd Burch, 21, was awaiting sentencing for robbing a fast food store at knifepoint in 2013, to help fund a methamphetamine habit.

Tomorrow the Liberal Opposition will attempt to move a motion in the Legislative Assembly, calling for an inquiry into how Ms Burch's son came to volunteer in Canberra schools without a permit.

But during a drama-filled question time in the ACT Legislative Assembly today, Ms Burch pre-empted the motion by making an unexpected speech to the Assembly.

In her address she took aim at the Canberra Liberals and at Fairfax publication The Canberra Times for their reporting of the issue.

"The narrative that has been created by The Canberra Times and the Liberals shows politics at an extremely low ebb," she said.

"If this is going to be the tenure of the political tact in this place, where family and friends are fair game by the Canberra Liberals and the Canberra Times then I think it is a sad indictment of this place. A sad indictment.

"There is no mention that my son has gone to great lengths to improves his life and be a positive member of our community ... he is a good young man."

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Say new rules needed for race financing, including their own

Campaign finance records for political leadership campaigns remain outside the reach of Elections Newfoundland and Labrador.

Liberal leadership candidates answer questions at the leadership convention in this 2013 file photo. Telelgram file photo

The Liberals are promising to amend the law and change financing for leadership runs, despite the fact that Liberals received big, anonymous donations and were the biggest spenders, when looking at the Liberal race of 2013 and the most recent Progressive Conservative race in 2014.

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As reported, candidates in the last Liberal contest said they operated under the rules as decided upon by the party.

That is why, for example, the public disclosure ultimately issued by candidate Paul Antle reads Company 1, Company 2 and Individual 1, Individual 2, as opposed to citing real names. Donors were not told up front their donations might be disclosed.

That lack of disclosure would be a no-no under the laws governing a general election, but is allowed in leadership races here.

Some candidates ran hefty expenditures. The ultimate winner, DwightBall, spent $312,733 on his campaign, MHA Cathy Bennett $411,000 and Antle $438,000. Smaller amounts in the Liberal leadership race were spent by Danny Dumaresque, at $32,850 and then there was MHA Jim Bennett.

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