{"id":1784,"date":"2008-05-29T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2008-05-29T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T13:02:00","slug":"munsinger-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Munsinger Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"

L’Affair<\/span> Bernier’s<\/span> Briefs<\/em>, as I think I will hereafter call it, has certainly proven to be a far sexier scandal than Cadscam<\/span>, the In & Out scandal, or even Mulroney-Schreiber<\/span>. It was front page news for the third consecutive day in Canada, and has been grabbing international headlines<\/a>, including a front page story in Italy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The latest highlights:<\/p>\n

1. The Liberals are alleging that CSIS<\/span> met with Harper<\/a> about Bernier<\/span> and Couillard<\/span> weeks ago.<\/p>\n

2. The NDP<\/span> are alleging that Bernier<\/span> carelessly<\/a> left his briefing files out on an airplane.<\/p>\n

3. Don Martin floats the bizarre theory that Bernier was “set up<\/a>” (to take the blame, not with Couillard).<\/p>\n

4. Chris Selly<\/span> at Macleans<\/span> is trying out “the leave-behind affair<\/a>” as a possible name for the scandal. He also finds this gem of an article from Peter Worthington:<\/p>\n

“Supposedly, the cabinet documents contained data about Afghanistan. Big deal,” Peter Worthington <\/span>scoffs<\/span><\/a> in the Toronto Sun. “It’s a challenge to imagine anything about our role in Afghanistan that could be damaging.” <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

5. The Globe has the latest Cabinet Shuffle speculation<\/a>, indicating it will be a “small” shuffle then talking about the need to replace Bernier<\/span>, Toews<\/span>, Emerson (at Trade), and Guergis<\/span>, while promoting Jason Kenney<\/span>, a Quebec MP or two, James Moore, and James Rajotte<\/span>. Which is just cruel to the last two – why get their hopes up yet again<\/em>, only to have Harper crush them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L’Affair Bernier’s Briefs, as I think I will hereafter call it, has certainly proven to be a far sexier scandal than Cadscam, the In & Out scandal, or even Mulroney-Schreiber. It was front page news for the third consecutive day in Canada, and has been grabbing international headlines, including a front page story in Italy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}