Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Something is rotten in Harperland

We seem to be living through the worse government this country has ever seen, and after Mulroney that's quite the achievement.

The whole afraid concerning the Canadian woman Suaad Hagi Mohamud, who was detained in Kenya charged with being an impostor, keeps getting stranger.

The Canadian diplomat who officially disowned Suaad Hagi Mohamud as an "imposter" has been recalled from Kenya.

Liliane Khadour has "concluded" her posting, a consular official at the Canadian High Commission said yesterday from the capital, Nairobi.

"Her tour of duty is over," he said, explaining that Foreign Affairs employees rotate posts every two or three years, and Khadour had been in Nairobi for two. "I am not very sure where she went."

Khadour is now in Ottawa.

Although she owns a condominium apartment there with her partner, Jason Joyce, the two are staying at a downtown hotel. Both had been working at the commission in Nairobi as first secretaries.

When reached by cellphone yesterday, Joyce hung up almost immediately. Neither answered the phone in their hotel room or returned messages.

The Canada Border Services Agency has opened an internal investigation into the handling of Mohamud's case.


Had this been a white woman, the Harper government would have had her back in 24 hours, given her a ticker tape parade, and blamed the whole thing on the Liberals...

Read more here.

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