Peter Mackay to Press...

Don't tell any stories we don't like or we'll cry about it.

On thursday we learned via the Globe and Mail that the PMO was trying to play secretive games with the Lebanon crisis.

Apparently, that column struck a nerve or two with our political masters, as we find Mr. Mackay crying in his beer. After the Conservative government's hissy fit with the press earlier this year, it appears that they still don't get it, and are bound and determined to have the press as their worst political enemy.

Nothing in Mackay's letter refutes the micromanagement coming out of the PMO in this incident, nor does his whining about resources convince me of his position. I'm fully aware that Canada's resources are limited in that region, but I'm not daft enough to believe for a minute that this is anything more than the result of a micromanagement style that was overly focused on making political points, and completely lost sight of the big picture - such as contingencies and logistics, the very things that departments should be given the license to take care of, with only minimal direction from the PMO.