http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/reorganizing-seats-a-can-of-worms-89896902.html
By: Mia Rabson
EMBATTLED Conservative cabinet minister Helena Guergis has clearly been having a bad spring.
Since her boot-throwing, curse-laden temper tantrum at the Charlottetown airport, she has been under intense scrutiny. Last week, the heat went up even more when it was revealed several of her staffers had been writing glowing letters to the editor on her behalf.
Every aspect of her life is being combed through, right down to the cost of her new tony Ottawa home — an $880,000, 2,800-square foot, four-bedroom mansion in one of Ottawa’s wealthiest neighbourhoods.
Amid the pressure, one might think she and her staff would be desperate to change the channel. But given such an opportunity last week, Guergis and her office flubbed it.
During question period Thursday, she answered yet another question about her staff’s letter-writing habits by providing a glimpse of something newsworthy.
“As members know, Sisters in Spirit and the incredible research that they had done came to a close yesterday, but today we finalized the first of a series of projects over the next five years to help address the very serious issue of missing and poor aboriginal people,” she said.
However, when pressed for any details of the project for a news story that could have provided Guergis the chance to look better, her office offered no more than this:
“When we have something to announce, there will be an announcement,” wrote press aide Martin Paquette in an email to the Free Press.