As the federal election winds its way towards Oct. 19, it’s going to take quite an effort to match the comic drama of that exquisitely staged Conservative party press event in Toronto Wednesday. A cranky man — who was that guy, Grandpa from the Simpsons? — ruined everything by upstaging Stephen Harper himself with a profanity-laced tirade against journalists whose impudence it was to ask Harper about the ongoing bribery trial of Senator Mike Duffy.
At last, something to liven things up. Even the Duffy trial itself — speaking of Canada’s riveting national corruption scandal — resumed this week in an …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
