Guy Giorno

Paul Wells takes an inside look at where the power really lies in Ottawa

Conservative campaign chairman Guy Giorno puts his faith in the voters.

The Canadian Press details the struggle to sell the stimulus.

Having departed the Prime Minister’s Office with a gracious salute to his employer, Guy Giorno is now airing his grievances with various media entities.

From the Inkless Emailbox, a forwarded email from Stephen Harper’s chief of staff on his last day on the job:

PM’s chief of staff target for blame, but insiders say he gets big things right

An elderly government official, speaking anonymously, asserts the necessity of transparent governance.

It is now down to this.

Stephen Harper, Wednesday. ”I can’t address that subject. I don’t honestly know the answer. I’ve been reading and hearing different things,” he said.

The place of the National Security Adviser in U.S. politics is not something most Canadians, including federal officials, have thought much about. But after Barack Obama’s recent visit to Ottawa, that should change. As we reported in the March 9 issue of the magazine, the key White House official in setting the agenda for Obama’s meetings with Stephen Harper was General James Jones Jr., the current NSA.

“We have grown-ups running the budget process,” a Senior Anonymous Source tells the Globe. “There will be no juvenile political games.” You mean like anonymously leaking your strategy instead of executing it? Well, there’ll be no other juvenile political games.

But it’s nearly as awkward to admit that the first fourteen words of this CTV.ca story actually made me feel a teeny bit sorry for Jim Flaherty: