Musings on Greenwood

The Tories are handling the second of their Auditor General scandals remarkably well.

As the article I’ve linked to shows, they have offered a profuse apology to Sheila Fraser for misquoting her on a report about the G8 summit.

What remains unanswered is how the hell did someone in the Conservatives lift a quote from a 2004 Auditor’s Report about National Security after 9-11 and mistaken it for comments about the 2010 G8 summit.

I would love to meet the staffer who screwed that one up because I just can’t even begin to get my head around it. You have to put effort into being that clumsy. It doesn’t just happen naturally.

The biggest this whole fiasco did was reinforce the original G8 spending scandal which stemmed from the leaked report.

The public may have given them the benefit of the doubt until after the final report comes out in Parliament because Fraser herself is urging people to do so.

They would have probably been complete unscathed by the lifted quote by spinning it as an honest mistake made by a hapless but decent staffer.

Unfortunately, the one scandal right on top of the other has created a narrative. You can bet it will pop up in tonight’s leaders debate.

Ethan Rabidoux