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Originally Posted by Slava

Haha, you mean staunch reformers like Jason "I hate career politicians and have never had another job myself" Kenney? Or maybe Stephen "we should get rid of these gold-plated pensions, but I'm taking mine" Harper?

There were a few things in the Reform movement I agreed with actually (), but there was a lot hypocrisy thrown in for good measure.

Well, you can be this kind of team player apparently: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12...ts-police-say/
Harper confidante Senator Carolyn Stewart Olsen’s statement on Duffy audit ‘not consistent with facts’: RCMP

Consider, if you will, that Sen. Carolyn Stewart Olsen, long one of Stephen Harper’s closest aides, gave an interview to RCMP officers in which she said several things that they suggest appear to be untrue.

Whatever she thought, what she told them was that she and other Tory senators handled an audit into senators’ expenses without input from the prime minister’s office. She told the Mounties that she only recalled “communicating with Nigel Wright on one occasion, at a meeting at the end of April 2013, to provide an update on the audit process.”

The RCMP’s email record, though, shows that she was often exchanging emails with Wright and other officials in the PMO, that she was implementing their instructions.

Consider that from 2002 until 2009, when Harper put her in the Senate, Stewart Olsen was engaged by him as press secretary and communications director. Anonymous staffers whispered to reporters that she always had his ear, claiming that she brought out the worst in him, and she survived when other servants came and went, fiercely personally loyal to the boss.


If the version of events that Stewart Olsen gave the police was “incomplete, and not consistent with the facts,” as they wrote, what was she telling reporters all those years?

Since the RCMP documents were released Wednesday, the prime minister has said nothing about this. When Tom Mulcair asked about Stewart Olsen in question period, Harper replied by pointing at Duffy and Wright, and neither he nor anyone in his government has made a statement about her failure to be forthcoming with the police. So far as we know, they approve.

It is depressing to think that only the police are able to demand accountability from this government, and that the prime minister’s servants can’t be trusted to tell the police the truth.