Because of the outrage over such a blatantly clueless move by Harper. Sometime between Feb. 7 and today the PMO just changes their web page as if it never happened.
MP must know how to speak: Godin
CBC New Brunswick, Canada -10 Feb 2006
An Alberta MP who doesn't speak French has been named parliamentary secretary to the minister for la Francophonie. Ted Menzies will ...New parliamentary secretary to Francophonie can't speak French
New parliamentary secretary to Francophonie can't speak French
CBC News, Canada -10 Feb 2006
Francophone groups and opposition MPs are raising concerns about an appointment within Stephen Harper's government after learning the parliametary secretary ...
Vive Le Canada, Canada -3 hours ago
Francophone groups and opposition MPs are raising concerns about an appointment in Stephen Harper's government after learning the parliametary secretary for la ...
Shades of the The Stalin school of falsification! Wow just like that Menzies is no longer Le Francophonie secretary. Just like Stalin had pictures of Lenin and Trotsky together, erased.
Yes its true, here are the links to the PMO press release and the biographies for the parlimentary secretaries as published and revised, with no announcement that they had removed Menizies from his post as Le Francophonie.
Prime Minister announces Parliamentary Secretaries
NEWS RELEASE
February 7, 2006Ottawa, Ontario
Ted Menzies
Macleod (Alberta)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Cooperation
TED MENZIES
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Cooperation
Macleod (Alberta)
Ted Menzies was first elected to the House of Commons in 2004 and was re-elected in 2006. Most recently, he served as Critic for International Trade. Prior to this, he was the Critic for Inter-Provincial Trade, International Cooperation and the Canadian International Development Agency. Mr. Menzies was also president of the Canadian Agri-Food and Trade Alliance and vice-president of the Grain Growers of Canada. He has owned and operated a farm in Claresholm , Alberta , for over 30 years. Mr. Menzies was born in 1952 in Claresholm. He is married to Sandy and they have two children.
Unfortunately nobody bothered to inform Mr. Menzies of his demotion. So I guess he can cancel his French lessons.
Anglo MP to begin leçonsA tip o the blog to Jason Cherniak for pointing this out... Ted Menzies - La Francophonie no longer?
Toronto Star, Canada -10 hours ago
OTTAWA—The Conservative government's contentious choice to help represent Canada with the francophonie says he'll get straight to work Monday morning ...
Unilingual anglo Tory says he's up to the job of representing ...
Canada.com, Canada -23 hours ago
OTTAWA (CP) - A unilingual anglophone tasked by the Conservative government with responsibility for the francophonie says he's starting French lessons on Monday ...
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3 comments:
There's nothing here. If you look on this page you'll see that Josée Verner is listed as the Minister of International Cooperation and Minister for La Francophonie and Official Languages.
Now if you go to this page you'll see that Ted Menzies is listed as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Cooperation.
Aha you're saying. This proves there is something going on. Nope, take a look at some of the other cabinet positions, like Peter MacKay's and you'll see it's title lists more info than his parliamentary secrataries' titles do. Menzies is the parliamentary secrectary to Verner who is the Minister of Francophonie so that means Menzies is the parliamentary secretary of the Franocphonie.
Nice try though.
Then again, maybe you did call it right.
See wait a few hours and the MSM will catch up with the cutting edge news from the Blogosphere
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