Subhead:If you tried to design a textbook example of how public office and private interest can collide, you’d struggle to make it clearer than the Liberals' newest MP.# YouTube-embed:V_R0C_8QUwg Remember when Lori Idlout crossed the floor? Yeah, that was bad. Nunavut voters elected her as an NDP MP by just 41 votes. A handful of families changing their minds would’ve flipped the result. Then she handed that seat to Mark Carney’s Liberals anyway. A quiet deal in Ottawa that erased the choice voters made. But now we know more. It turns out Lori Idlout wasn’t just playing politics. She was also billing taxpayers for purchases from her own business. House of Commons disclosures show four transactions in 2025 tied to her company, Carvings Nunavut, totalling about $1,756. That includes multiple smaller purchases and one larger one just under $1,400. Only after media questions did she suddenly realize this was a problem. Her explanation? It was an “error.” Right. Because apparently, running purchases from your own company through your parliamentary expense account just… happens. And we’re supposed to believe this wasn’t noticed until reporters started asking questions?