Guergis scandal Gets Curiouser

But Stephen Harper won’t tell us what it is, nor who is making the allegation. We still don’t know why Harper had to call in the Mounties to investigate Guergis.

Instead Harper takes off for Washington and leaves his buddy Transport Minister John Baird to cope with the mess.

Guergis is gone but the scandal is still stinking up the Commons. "Go right ahead and call it breaking information," said Conservative MP Shelley Glover."THis is becoming a political hot potato."

It began in February. Guergis threw a hissy fit in Charlottetown airport calling it a “sh%&%hole” and chucked her shoes at a security machine, kicking at doors and yelling that she absolutely had to get back to her husband in Ottawa because it was her “f&?&%ing birthday.”

Then we find out husband Rahim Jaffer, had been charged by police near Toronto with cocaine possession and drunken driving after a night of drinking and feasting with shady business characters and a trio of Toronto hookers. But he gets off paying a $500 fine. The judge tells him he is lucky. An understatement, no less.

It comes out Guergis has been charging up running shoes and jogging gear as legitimate election expenses. Then it turns out her family and staff have been using assumed names to write flattering letters to editors about her.

And huge expense account meals start showing up.

Harper has more than enough to throw her out of cabinet.

Strangely through it all, Harper keeps defending his glamorous former beauty queen minister, even patting her encouragingly on the back in the Commons.

And then suddenly last Friday, she’s out on her ear, out of cabinet, even out of the Conservative caucus, and Harper won’t say why, except that he was told something by somebody and the cops will investigate.

So Ottawa turns into a rumor mill. Was it anything in her department? Was there a link with her husband reported as saying to his business friends that he could open doors to the prime minister’s office.

Was it linked in any way to the cocaine police found in Jaffer’s jacket on the back seat of his car Sept. 10, 2009?

Did it have anything to do with her husband’s business contact Nazim Gillani facing fraud charges linked to a money transfer to another country last year?

Gillani tells reporters that Jaffer the husband could “open doors” in Ottawa and now everybody is trying to figure out which ministers he met, what he talked to them about, and why had he not bothered to register as a lobbyist as the law requires.

Maybe the whole thing was cooked up by Harper as an excuse to get rid of his embarrassing Bonnie and Clyde couple.

At least it takes everybody’s mind off the government’s Afghan torture scandal for a few more weeks. And it’s politically safer than proroguing Parliament a third time.