The Canadian Press, CBC and Postmedia report from Ontario Superior Court, where a lawyer for Stephen Harper (et al.) argued today that Helena Guergis’ lawsuit should be dismissed. The Prime Minister originally moved for dismissal in May.
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Christian Paradis’ choice of lodging
Less than a week after he was scolded by the ethics commissioner for his dealings with Rahim Jaffer, it is revealed that Christian Paradis spent an optically questionable weekend hunting moose.
Speaking of candidates and ‘expiry dates’
Mind if we update that Jaffer sign?
He says, she says
When Mr. Harper announced last April that Helena Guergis was the subject of serious allegations, he said that “pending a resolution, she will sit outside of the Conservative Party caucus.” But though the allegations against Helena Guergus are now confirmed to be those that have already been dismissed, she apparently remains unwelcome.
Guergis works the comeback trail
The former cabinet minister is fighting for her political life against the full might of the Tory electoral machine
Why Laureen Harper might need a professional lobbyist
For the second year, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami presented A Taste of the Arctic, this time in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Canada. While there were long lineups for the muskox, halibut and shrimp stations, the one featuring seal meat was less popular. Evan Solomon, host of CBC’s Power & Politics, claimed the seal meat was delicious, if hard to taste because of the heavy sauce. ITK president Mary Simon arrived with her leg in a cast. (Ottawa is plagued with leg injuries: not only is Treasury Board President Stockwell Day in a cast, Veterans Affairs Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn injured his leg in a snowmobile accident.)
Helena Guergis in conversation
On her marriage, her talk with Stephen Harper, and her future prospects
A fitting end
The last day of committee hearings into the dealings of Rahim Jaffer ends in bafflement, contradiction and scorn.
Viva Guergis
So, apparently, it was also Rahim Jaffer, in Cuba, with the special passport and the Castro administration. And maybe even that isn’t the entirety of it.
What else could there possibly be?
Shelly Glover teases the possibility of still more exciting developments to come in the story of Helena Guergis.