He am the very model of accountabilibullity

"No government is perfectly transparent. It's impossible to achieve utopia when it comes to those goals," Williams said. "However . . . we've gone certainly further than any government has gone in Newfoundland and Labrador before, and I would say we're an example in Canada."

- ODP, yesterday.

Today? The CBC reports:

On Monday, Cameron stopped Brazil soon after she began her argument. Cameron demanded to know who sent her to the inquiry, and asked whether it was Robert Thompson, a senior civil servant with a responsibility for setting up the inquiry, or someone else.

Brazil said that Cameron "should not assume" that she took her instructions directly from Thompson, who, Cameron pointed out, had testified that the government's involvement in the inquiry came under his direction.

"I'm just trying to understand the basis upon which you wish to pursue this line," Cameron said.

"If you're not receiving your instructions from Mr. Thompson, then can you tell me whether or not your instructions come from the attorney general, for example," Cameron told Brazil.

After a lengthy pause, Brazil said only that she represented the government.

You can always tell a CSIS "spook", too.

They will only tell you that they "work for Solicitor General Canada".

And they all have moustaches.