officers of parliament

In Question Period today, Peter Van Loan sure sounded surprised to learn that, as ITQ first reported yesterday, Officers of Parliament — Privacy, Official Languages, Auditor General, Information and probably one or two I haven’t remembered — expected their communications to be vetted by Harper-loyal Langevin Bloc gnomes before release to the public.

Hey, remember yesterday, when I liveblogged Auditor General Sheila Fraser’s appearance before Public Accounts , and it was almost a total write-off as far as actual news? Until she told the committee that the Privy Council Office has issued a draft policy that would force her office, and every other ostensibly independent officer of Parliament, to hand over copies of their respective communications strategies?