Barrel Strength

I don’t question the necessity of the Maxime Bernier resignation. But is that the extent of stunning incompetence amongst our parliamentarians?

Watching today’s brooaadcast on Newman’s “Politics”, I am baffled by some suppositions raised by Serge Menard and Bob Rae.

Firstly, Bloqhead Serge Menard talks about the claim of a listening device found underneath Mme. Couillard’s bed, wondering who could have placed it. If a private security firm can find it, odds are that no government agency placed it. For years intelligence and police operatives have gotten reliable voice monitoring by pinging a laser beam off a window in the target building. If true, this is the stuff of second-rate gumshoe work.

And then Menard ventures that people are more likely to discuss state secrets in the kitchen than the bedroom. WTF, M. Menard?! Would anyone take counsel from someone who appears to have no knowledge of the Profumo scandal, the Stasi archives or at least one spy thriller?

Secondly, Liberal and Great Canadian™ Bob Rae moaned about the need to preserve the honour of the post of Foreign Minister. Did he ever have a chance to talk to the man he replaced in Parliament, who coincidentally had been a Canadian Foreign Minister? To refresh his memory, it was Bill Graham, the man who also maintained a hideaway for an underage male prostitute who was his surreptious lover. Doubt it, Bob? Google “Lawrence Metherel”. Then come back to the table and talk about ministerial propriety.