It seems odd the NDP keeps getting scandals recently

It does seem odd that the NDP in recent days has been beset by scandals. First there were union donations in Nova Scotia in the middle of an election campaign. The reason they are considered improper is because the umbrella union organization appeared to use its subdivisions to give more than the new legal donation limit. The NDP has done nothing wrong, however. They immediately returned the donations as soon as they realized there was a problem. The NDP's opponents have called for an RCMP investigation but I disagree. Not every little thing should warrant an RCMP investigation. The governing Manitoba NDP also saw an old scandal resurface over the use of union volunteers in the 1999 Manitoba election to do with election expense claims. Some former NDP worker has come out with the allegation that this mishap was done purposefully. The NDP's response has been that it what they did was thought to be a legal practice at the time and it was only later ruled illegal and the situation was dealt with at this time and there is nothing new here. I'll take the Manitoba NDP's word on this. Although this former NDP worker has called for a public inquiry, there can't be a public enquiry for every single scandal. That would be going too far. Sometimes inquiries and investgations are warranted, but there are times when we should just let things be. Another odd thing is that both these scandals are related to unions. Unions mostly support the NDP in Canada. This was also true at the federal level until union political party donations were completely banned. In most provinces that have an NDP local labour unions almost exclusively support the local NDP. An exception to this is in Ontario. In Ontario, lingering bitterness over the Bob Rae years makes unions in Ontario split their support between the provincial Liberals and the provincial NDP. This held true even during the 2007 Ontario election when Rae had already openly become a Liberal. Rae's effects on the Ontario NDP have long outlasted Rae's time as a member of the NDP. In my view it needs to be firmly established what it is and is not legal for unions to do when it comes to helping political parties so that we don't get scandals like the ones in Manitoba and Nova Scotia.