Michael Fortier
A senator-free cabinet
Senators will apparently no longer be welcome around the table
Abolish the Senate and save future Michael Fortiers the disappointment
A Conservative senator questions the Senate’s “usefulness”
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Hey thanks for that, Michael Fortier
The Conservatives’ handpicked guy who looked into Liberal polling practices (and found them cheaper than Conservative polling practices) will be running for a nomination for the Bloc Québécois in the next election.
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It’s not true that Michael Fortier spent $140,000 in taxpayer money to renovate an office the size of a bachelor apartment. No, he was really conducting an undercover operation to unmask reckless spending in the Parliamentary office-renovation branch. I’m pretty sure the cheesy stubble-beard was part of his disguise. Excellent work, Inspector!
How much is that cabinet in the window? (V)
How coincidental is it that two of Mr. Harper’s most poorly chosen ministers (Maxime Bernier and Michael Fortier) are now reported to be two of his government’s most egregious spenders?
Quelle Crock
Conservative non-MP Michael Fortier, left, gazes toward Montreal
David Emerson – Shamelessly exhausting the world supply of political irony before the campaign even gets started
UPDATE – According to someone who was watching CTVNewsNet this morning – or, what we in the business like to call, “an unnamed source”, Bernard Lord’s co-pilot will indeed be David Emerson. Whee!
Megapundit: James Moore, son of Trudeau?
Must-reads: Don Martin on Gomery’s comeuppance; Susan Riley on the cabinet shuffle; Richard Gwyn on the Green Shift.
BTC: Who will speak for the unelected?
So Mr. Fortier’s off to International Trade, but as he’s remains steadfastly unelected, he won’t be able to speak to the portfolio in the House. The job of rising on his behalf will, one assumes, go to the secretary of state for international trade. And who’s that? You guessed it—Helena Guergis.