The Toronto Star sets its sights...
...and has Steve Staples do the trigger-pulling. Good grief!
End of line for O'Connor?As Babbling has posted, "Steven Staples needs to shut the hell up". I'd be glad to supply the staples.
Buck-passing in soldiers' funeral fiasco could lead to defence minister's departure, analysts say
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Steve Staples, director of the Rideau Institute [check the "Officers" - MC], an Ottawa policy body [with a clear agenda, not mentioned by the "reporter"], said the latest controversy is further proof O'Connor shouldn't be defence minister. "O'Connor has been a disaster in that portfolio. Every time he opens his mouth he seems to have to put his foot in it [often true, sadly]," Staples said.
Still, Staples noted that O'Connor, who survived a January cabinet shuffle, has weathered recent criticisms with the public backing of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
"The latest stumbles just show he's not up to the job but Harper is not one to be easily persuaded otherwise," Staples said. "I really felt in January that his time was up."..
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 11:27 a.m.
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also check out their legal adviser
looks like he is a hard core based on what his association with CCPA
http://policyalternatives.ca/index.cfm?act=news&author=Steven%20Shrybman&do=list&call=d97539bd&pa=d97539bd
Sorry Mark, I am no fan of Steven Staples, but I just don't see much of a problem with the article. Gordon O'Connor is not providing the political leadership that the current operational environment in the CF requires.
In war there is no room for weak links in a chain and O'Connor is a weak link.
It is not all-out full-mobilization war a la WWI or WW II, it is a dirty, nasty counter-insurgency fight in a far-off place that Canadians have trouble identifying with. A fact that makes O'Connors inability to explain the mission inexcusable.
Say what you want Mark but Bruce Campion-Smith is better at being a journalist than O'Connor is at being an MND.
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