Why the double standard?

Deputy Premier Tom Rideout told CBC News that the House of Assembly didn't put Chief Justice Green's "Rules" in place because there were issues that needed to be sorted out.

Rideout confirmed the Bond Papers' story from Thursday, even though he initially said it was poppycock.

But...

Rideout, meanwhile, said that while the new rules are not yet law, they will be followed anyway — at least within the PC caucus.

Members were sent an advisory to live by Green's recommendations concerning donations and discretionary spending.

If the Tories can be ordered to live by The Rules within their own caucus, why weren't The Rules just put in place?

Partisan game?

Suck and blow at the same time?

Rideout's explanation doesn't make sense.

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