Sandra Buckler

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If the people do not support you loudly enough, create your own people

Helena Guergis, March 30. Mr. Speaker, with respect to the staffer in question, she called me today. She advised me of the situation. We discussed it. We did discuss that it was inappropriate. She apologized and assured me that it will not happen again.

MPs and Mental Health Awards

The seventh annual Champions of Mental Health Awards were held at the Fairmont Château Laurier ballroom. Margaret Trudeau, seen below with son Justin, got an award for being open about suffering from bipolar disorder.

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Plus ca change

Adam Radwanski likely strikes the appropriate tone on today’s news from the Prime Minister’s Office.

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See for yourself

The McGill panel discussion including Ian Brodie that John Geddes wrote about a couple weeks ago is now online.

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Well, if *I* were Guy Giorno – The ITQ Advice Column (Mollifying the Media Edition)

… not that he needs my advice, apparently, according to  Colleague Wells’ cryptic-by-proxy latest, of course. But if some bizarre flux in the space-time continuum resulted in me being put in charge of picking the new PMO communications director, my wishlist would be as follows:

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Meet the new boss, almost certainly indistinguishable from the old boss …

I’ve got to say that I pretty much agree with Susan Delacourt, as far as the end of the Buckler era of noncommunications at PMO: it’s hard to see how this will change much, really, other than put a fresh address atop the one-line non-response email that bounces back in reply to whatever question you might have asked.

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The Commons: So it goes

The Conservatives have no credible answers and the Liberals are now mocking them in verse