{"id":2302,"date":"2009-06-08T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2009-06-08T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T02:29:00","slug":"well-at-least-she-didnt-crack-any-wayne-easter-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"Well, at least she didn’t crack any Wayne Easter jokes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI can\u2019t. I\u2019d love to, but I can\u2019t. That\u2019ll be a career-limiting move, as we would say<\/em>.”
-Lisa Raitt, on tape<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of career-limiting moves, the Rait<\/span> tape is now public<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s a good lesson for all you political staffers out there, in that you should never accidentally<\/span> audio tape private conversations with your boss. And, if you do<\/em> accidentally<\/span> audio tape private conversations with your boss, you shouldn’t leave the tape recorder in a House of Commons washroom. And, if you do accidentally<\/span> audio tape private conversations with your boss and leave the tape recorder in a House of Commons washroom, you should get the tape back before, well, this<\/em><\/a> happens.<\/p>\n

Reading the transcripts, the rumours about Raitt’s feud with the Minister of Health seem overblown. She calls Aglukkaq<\/span> a “capable woman”, then muses that she might be having some trouble adjusting to cut throat Ottawa politics. I’ve heard Cabinet Ministers say far far<\/em> worse things than that about their colleagues, so there really isn’t a story here, other than the fact that Leona Aglukkaq<\/span> is apparently the Minister of Health.<\/p>\n

No, the damning audio clip in this is certainly Raitt<\/span> calling the isotope shortage a “sexy” issue. Again, I’d wager 90% of MPs<\/span> have said far worse in private at some point in their careers but, on the heels of Gerry Ritz’ listeriosis<\/span> comedy routine<\/a>, it certainly doesn’t make the Harper government seem overly compassionate<\/span>.<\/p>\n

But Ritz survived, and his transgression showed a much larger lack of judgement since it happened on a conference call, on ministerial business, rather than during a casual chat with an aide. So it seems likely that Harper will stand by Raitt<\/span> on this one.<\/p>\n

But regardless of whether or not Raitt<\/span> keeps her Cabinet post, a rising star in the Conservative Cabinet has been seriously bruised by this week-long fiasco. Which has got to suck for the Tories, given how thin on talent their front benches are looking these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI can\u2019t. I\u2019d love to, but I can\u2019t. That\u2019ll be a career-limiting move, as we would say.”-Lisa Raitt, on tape Speaking of career-limiting moves, the Rait tape is now public. There’s a good lesson for all you political staffers out there, in that you should never accidentally audio tape private conversations with your boss. And, […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302"}],"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=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}