Deputy Henchperson

One interesting sidelight on the Penis Affair. Minister of — what the devil is he Minister of, anyway? — Minister of Something, Shawn Skinner, told Randy Simms of VOCM on Monday:

I removed her because of the fact that I found out, yesterday afternoon, late in the afternoon, that she had posted something that I found to be very offensive and very insulting, and totally inappropriate, onto her Facebook site, related to the Premier, and when I found that out, I felt that she should be removed from the Rural Secretariat. Her term had expired anyway, and I'm reviewing all the positions anyway, but I did remove her based upon that posting.

That's a lot of first-person-singular pronouns there. Which means the remover's account of events doesn't quite square with that of the removee:

On Sunday evening, while trick or treaters were knocking at the door, Ghent received a call from Bruce Gilbert, a Deputy Minister with the Department of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development, to let her know that she was off the secretariat, effective immediately.

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“Gilbert said to me, ‘Is there anything you may have done?’ And I knew then that he was giving me a hint. I said, ‘Aha – you’re talking Facebook.’ He said, ‘Well, you’re not on my Facebook.’ And I said, ‘You’re telling me that something I put on Facebook has made this an urgent matter.’ He asked what I had put on there and I told him. He said ‘I... Don’t… Know...’ And the way it was said, made me go ‘That’s what it is!’”