OTTAWA -- The dirty laundry list of Canadian political sex scandals doesn't have nearly the salacious quality of those of Britain and the United States.

While Liberal MP and millionaire heiress Belinda Stronach may be capturing headlines this week for her alleged role in the messy divorce of retired NHLer Tie Domi, history suggests the peccadillo will be just a passing fling for the Canadian electorate.

"In contrast to the American press, the Canadian press over the past 25 years has been pretty tolerant or understanding in not wanting to get too far into the private lives of politicians in Canada," says David Shugarman, a political scientist who specializes in ethics at York University in Toronto.

Gerda Munsinger, an alleged spy for the Soviet Union's KGB, shared the bed of Conservative defence minister Pierre Sevigny for three years at the end of the 1950s -- a troubling arrangement that was brought to the attention of prime minister John Diefenbaker, who quietly buried it.

The potential security breach didn't come to light until 1966, when an enraged Liberal minister tossed Munsinger's name back at the then-opposition Tories during a Commons exchange over security leaks. The ensuing media circus ended with a royal commission that was critical of Diefenbaker's failure to act.

The nadir came in the spring of 1977, when his much younger wife Margaret Trudeau spent her sixth wedding anniversary partying with the Rolling Stones at a Toronto concert.

Soon after, she told People magazine that her husband had a body "of a 25-year-old," while also discussing her lingerie and how state visitors ogled her breasts.

No one was applauding, however, in 1978 when solicitor general Francis Fox confessed in the Commons to getting an abortion for his married mistress by forging her husband's name. Fox resigned his Liberal cabinet post.

In 1993, B.C. Liberal party leader Gordon Wilson made national headlines when word leaked of his affair with Liberal house leader Judy Tyabji. Both were married.

They later quit the Liberals and formed a new party, the Progressive Democratic Alliance. Wags in B.C. said the PDA was an acronym for Publicly Disgraced Adulterers.

And Art Eggleton was dumped from the Liberal cabinet of Jean Chretien in 2002 after it was revealed he'd given an untendered contract to an ex-girlfriend. Eggleton got a Senate appointment in 2005.

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