The Hill Times has the latest Maxime Bernier shuffle speculation (featuring anonymous Tory sources! Hmmm….). Favourite quote:

“The talk is that Maxime is going to end up at something fun and more at his level, like Revenue,” one Conservative insider told The Hill Times last week.

Snap! You’ll remember that Bernier was assigned to the portfolio less than a year ago, after a series of high-profile bumbles by Misters MacKay and O’Connor. I’m not sure this is neccesarily a portfolio I’d want to get if a shuffle does happen this summer.

If you were doing a report card on the performance of the Harper government in different areas, you have to think that Foreign Affairs would get their lowest mark. It’s been one mistake after another in that file.

Which kind of makes you wonder why the Liberals didn’t think Afghanistan would be a winning issue when they had a chance to make it the issue earlier this spring.