Well, I suppose if you are going to attack Michael Ignatieff for stuff he didn't say you might as well pick bad stuff.
G8 Harper Apology
Source: The Canadian Press
Jul 10, 2009
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L'AQUILA, Italy - An aide to Stephen Harper has offered an abject apology after the prime minister took a sharp shot at Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff for comments he never made.
Dimitri Soudas said he mistakenly informed Harper that comments by an academic about Canada's irrelevance in the G8 were actually Ignatieff's.
The academic said Canada is at risk of being shut out of such international councils.
Harper took those comments and ran with them in both official languages during his closing news conference at the Group of Eight summit.
He accused Ignatieff of being `irresponsible,' saying the Liberal leader `is supposed to be a Canadian.'
Shortly after the 45-minute news conference ended, Soudas rushed to inform Canadian media that he'd misread an email, wrongly attributed a quote to Ignatieff and then advised the prime minister to comment publicly on the matter.
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1 comment:
Question is, is he big enough to apologize for the mistake or will it be swept under the rug like all his other blunders?
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