pmo would like to remind everyone that ian brodie is still totally exonerated

yeah, you were awesome too baby ... hey, did i leave some shit there last night?

ok, this is so obviously a set-up:

The resignation announcement came a scant two hours before Julie Couillard was broadcast on French-language television network TVA telling viewers her former lover left documents at her house.

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A source told The Canadian Press that the package included a mix of classified material and other briefing notes publicly available through the Access to Information Act.

The package, he said, was preparation material for Mr. Bernier's trip to the NATO summit in Bucharest – where Canada announced the extension of its military mission in Afghanistan until 2011.

bitch, please: like mad max would actually take his briefing binders home with him, dude could barely be assed to look at them when he was in the office. anyway, le maximator is now free to practice his libertarianism with whomever he chooses. and for those of you wondering if the dear leader has the bench strength for this shuffle, steve janke has two words for you: jason kenney! seriously, is wajid khan too busy, because there's a guy who totally knows how to handle top secret documents.

of course, now that max is dumpsville we can all stop talking about this and go back to sound economic management without a carbon tax week right? because like iggy says, "I don't care about [Ms. Couillard's] skirts, I don't care about her cleavage". uh, sure dude. but after waiting so long for a scandal involving cabmins and boobies (but not involving vic toews, ew) and with in-and-out-gate turning out to be so disappointing, we hope you won't begrudge us like five more minutes:

Couillard talked about having tea with the prime minister's wife and meeting U.S. President George W. Bush at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.

She said Bush approached Bernier and her in a corridor and, glancing at her, jovially told Bernier, "Well, well, well, haven't you been busy."

our dfait sources confirm that dubs was jovially making the finger-in-hole "doing it" gesture when he said this. and it so gets better:

Couillard said she had security experts sweep her home and they told her a microphone had likely been planted in the seam of her mattress.

no seriously, wtf? hopefully our brand-spankin'-new $62-million spook palace includes some mattress-squeak filters, because we totally want to hear max and julie playing "invisible hand of the free market".

UPDATE: welcome, creeksiders and galloping beavers. btw, paul wells would like y'all to know that our jokes are way funnier in the other official language.