Rahim Jaffer

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.

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.

Mind if we update that Jaffer sign?

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.

The former cabinet minister is fighting for her political life against the full might of the Tory electoral machine

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.)

On her marriage, her talk with Stephen Harper, and her future prospects

The last day of committee hearings into the dealings of Rahim Jaffer ends in bafflement, contradiction and scorn.

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.

Shelly Glover teases the possibility of still more exciting developments to come in the story of Helena Guergis.

The member for Simcoe-Grey writes an open letter. The last paragraph might be the most interesting part.

The private investigator says the Prime Minister’s Office did not accurately report to the ethics commissioner the information he passed on to them. He says he has no evidence as to the conduct of Ms. Guergis in his “possession or knowledge.” The concern, he says, was “optics.” He says Mr. Jaffer was the “back door” to federal funding and Liberal party president Alf Apps was Nazim Gillani’s “getaway driver.” Mr. Gillani responds. Mr. Apps’ law firm says Mr. Apps was briefly on retainer to Mr. Gillani, but the law firm declined to do work with Mr. Gillani and the retainer was returned. And CBC reports that the private investigator arrived in Ottawa driving a nice car.