Harper set to shuffle the deck: sources
Updated: Sun Jan. 17 2010 12:12:36
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Speculation is growing that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will shuffle his cabinet this week -- possibly as soon as Tuesday.
Insiders say about five ministers will change jobs, and no one will be elevated from the Conservative backbenches.
One post that needs filling is veterans affairs after Greg Thompson resigned yesterday, saying he had accomplished all he set out to.
Sources say Harper could give the job to a junior minister of state.
Anyone at all who follows Canadian politics knows that nothing, absolutely nothing, escapes the cabinet without Harper's approval, so this article amounts to a freebie press release for the Conservatives.
Why can't the "sources" be named? We're not told.
What good comes from granting anonymity? I can't possibly guess at the inner-mechanizations of the Cs. Obviously, they didn't want names attached to this release for some reason, presumably a reason that serves their political purposes, and that's good enough for CP, evidently.
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ReplyDeleteI hope this thing of yours takes off, and eventually spreads south to my side of the national boundary. It may take awhile, but really seems worth the effort.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, you should create a parallel twitter account, to twit-pimp every post, and selectively link the ones likely to be of widest interest on your other twitter accounts. [I don't think that will add a lot of work.]
I'll look for twit-pimp opportunities as well, to my awesome army of twitter followers - I'm almost up to ten! (That's on purpose, FYI/FWIW; I lurk more than I post.)
Sharl (aka Liri)