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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has accepted the resignation of his embattled foreign affairs minister over an apparent security breach involving cabinet documents.

Mr. Harper told an extraordinary new conference on Parliament Hill that Maxime Bernier’s controversial relationship with a woman linked to the Hells Angels was not a factor in the decision.

But the resignation came as Julie Couillard was about to go to air on the French-language television station TVA to say that her former lover was careless with classified documents.

The Prime Minister says Mr. Bernier failed to uphold his promise to protect cabinet confidences. globe and mail

Hey, it could happen to anyone…have a few pops, have the chrome sucked off your bumper, forget your briefcase…but anyone is not supposed to be the Minister of External Affairs.

Nice to see David Emerson step into the breach. Harper finally goes for clued in rather than the optics.

Written by jay on May 27th, 2008 with 17 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com john begley
#1. May 27th, 2008, at 8:20 PM.

i believe ’suck the chrome off a trailer hitch’ is the correct rendering….FYI i feel ’suck a golf ball thru a garden hose’ has more frappe …

sorry to correct your imagery…but this subject has fascinated me(in a completely normal healthy way of course)for several score of years.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Alan
#2. May 27th, 2008, at 10:17 PM.

Except the reports say the never spoke again after the meeting. He took cabinet papers with apparently the plans for the Afghanistan mission to the break up meeting. Harper was warned and warned but it was never an issue. Harper said two hours before that it was not an issue.

Who exactly is the dumbass?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com WL Mackenzie Redux
#3. May 28th, 2008, at 1:10 AM.

Ahhh the spectacle of craven politicos eating their own, they certainly do provide soap-opera theater…however not nearly worth what we pay to see it.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Alan
#4. May 28th, 2008, at 2:01 AM.

So having a document relating to the total Afghan war strategy left in the hands of a person with known criminal connections whose criminal connections were not deemed worth a frigging CPIC by the PMO at the time the person making the connection was appointed to Cabinet is “soap-opera theatre”.

The capacity of partisans to turn off their brain astounds me some time. What more exactly might have been done in this situation that would warrant public concern with the quality of the leadership in Ottawa?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com jay
#5. May 28th, 2008, at 2:07 AM.

Well Alan….they could be Liberals.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Alan
#6. May 28th, 2008, at 2:20 AM.

No, you strike your forehead to turn the brain back on, Jay, not your temple. Try again.

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#7. May 28th, 2008, at 2:42 AM.

Alan, the irony reset is just behind your left ear lobe.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com john begley
#8. May 28th, 2008, at 3:46 AM.

well…at least he resigned….he’s still not ‘a dollar a year man’ disinterested patriot but it’s the last resignation with no strings or bullshit attached that i have memory of in Canadian politics….perhaps the man has a sense of honour…..perhaps a soupcon of the profumo-esque exists still?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Alan
#9. May 28th, 2008, at 4:10 AM.

I thought the irony reset was more in the arse region and required another’s assistance! ;-)

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com WL Mackenzie Redux
#10. May 28th, 2008, at 7:26 AM.

Hey Alan if you think I’m partisan, then you better worry about burning up on your re-entry to the planet. I’m a jaded taxpayer equal opportunity politico mocker ;-)

The politics we are allowed to see is theatrics… really you though it wasn’t? Pfffft.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Alan
#11. May 28th, 2008, at 9:43 AM.

Having known some of the sweaty browed executive assistants during these moments of scramble I am quite happy not to have to suffer under that sort of conspiracy theory.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com EBD
#12. May 28th, 2008, at 10:10 AM.

When you look deeply into Bernier’s eyes, you see….the back of his head.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com john reid
#13. May 28th, 2008, at 11:04 AM.

Wow, a Conservative cabinet member goes down in flames, boy that brings back memories of the last time the Tories were in power.
I sure hope the effing she gave him was worth the effing she gave him.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com James Goneaux
#14. May 28th, 2008, at 11:29 AM.

Nice to see the guy in the story being the bimbo for once. She seems to have the looks AND the brains…

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com WL Mackenzie Redux
#15. May 28th, 2008, at 11:40 AM.

Alan, its not a “conspiracy” when it is so evident. LOL ;-)

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com john reid
#16. May 29th, 2008, at 12:32 AM.

If this story has any legs, how long before we see her buck naked in Playboy?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Dr.Dawg
#17. May 29th, 2008, at 6:48 AM.

One can dream.

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