This report of mismanagement by the PMO in the sensitive foreign affairs and defence portfolios, from CTV News, is further confirmation that things are spinning out of control for the Harper government. As I recently wrote, governments are seldom defeated but often defeat themselves. When the PM’s official spokesperson get things this important so wrong, one knows the internal controls are breaking down. And when that happens its a fast slippery slope to looking like the gang that couldn't shoot straight or the Keystone Cops or...
With something as sensitive as the Afghanistan file, and as important as a NATO ally’s military commitment, and staff as senior as the PM’s press secretary, how can she have got it so wrong? Yesterday the Italians were laughing at Canada for the incompetent handing of the Bernier affair. Today they must be wondering if the whole government is incompetent.
The PM has some explaining to do when he gets to London and even more when he gets home.
