Truthiness

Remember that time the Public Safety Minister spoke out about non-existent suggestions of a knife registry? A reliable and generous source has provided a transcript of the July 31 scrum exchange. We reprint it here for the sake of posterity. 

Last month, I wrote a piece for the magazine about the Harper government approach to the truth—their spin on the idea of truthiness, as it were. Part of that piece picked up on something that was much more eloquently dissected by Dan Gardner in a January column for the Ottawa Citizen. 

As noted below, the Prime Minister stood for his last answer today with some interesting news. “The other option, of course, that Ontario and Quebec do not seem to like would be the option of imposing carbon taxes and I can assure everyone when I was in Europe last week, nobody wants that either.”

As Paul notes, sources are now claiming Maxime Bernier tendered his resignation Monday morning and it was the Prime Minister’s Office who put off accepting it until the evening. This would seem to reflect negatively on both the Prime Minister’s afternoon statement and Mr. Bernier’s publicly released letter of resignation.

Here is the first sentence of the John McCain profile that appeared in the New York Times Magazine this weekend. I dare say I won’t soon be in a position to seriously write something similar here.