In yesterday’s Blog, I predicted that Harper would be toast if it turns out he knew about the $90k payment to Mike Duffy in advance.
I stand by that – even more now, given that today he came out and said unequivocally that he had not known.
We are now left with having to give Stephen Harper the benefit of the doubt i.e. that all along he played no part in the Wright / Duffy fiasco.
That said, if it yet comes out that he did have advance notice, he will most definitely be finished - – his credibility totally shot.
And dear reader, there will be lots out there trying to make the connection, starting with CTV’s Robert Fife, so let’s hope Harper has at last come clean.
And in that respect, it leaves me most puzzled why it took the Prime Minister some 8 days, and now while in a foreign country, to make the statement everyone had been expecting.
The other strange fact is the wording of Nigel Wright’s resignation where he says something along the lines of the Prime Minister not knowing the method of how the payment was made. Don’t you think a simple ‘the Prime Minister had no knowledge whatsoever of the payment’ would have sufficed?”
I for one am suspicious but again Harper deserves the benefit of the doubt and I will give it to him … for now.
postscript: one I forgot … if Harper was so incensed at upon learning of the actions of his former chief of staff, as he verbalized yesterday in Peru, why was his first reaction, upon hearing the news 8 days ago, to express “full confidence” in his then chief of staff?
And one other unrelated item that niggles at me… why was his new chief of staff allowed to live over the garage at 24 Sussex? Small point I admit but wouldn’t we all love to be able to call 24 Sussex home for even a short time. Twenty four Sussex is the Home of the Prime Minister and his or her family and is not for his or her staff. ‘as I see it’
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
