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Aaron Wherry covers all the goings-on in and around Parliament Hill. Follow Aaron on Twitter: @aaronwherry

Watching a cabinet shuffle

by Aaron Wherry on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 1:58pm - 11 Comments

Julian Fantino has just arrived at Rideau Hall for today’s cabinet shuffle. At last report he had no idea what was going on.

“I actually don’t know,” he told QMI Agency. “I know there is an announcement but what it is has not been shared with me so far.”

He was followed soon thereafter by Ted Menzies, who was followed soon thereafter by Diane Ablonczy. The primary question now, assuming he is bound for cabinet, is which historical moment or achievement should Mr. Fantino invoke to explain the significance of this day? After the jump, a quick poll.

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  • Emily

    Move a couple of buttons, add a bit of yarn…and voila, a new sock puppet.

    • Jan

      Harper is trying to bore us to death, I was right all along.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Ottawa_Centrist Ottawa_Centrist

    My head says the storming of Normandy but my heart screams Battle of Thermopylae.

    • TimesArrow

      Storming of Normandy…i think Reagan already took that one.

  • criselis

    I'm glad I could choose all three because it is that significant, I say breathlessly.

  • TimesArrow

    I went for Rocky…JF's a good Italian boy, right.

    The Renaissance is way to lefty – Trudeau probably had a hand in it.

    First man on the moon is tempting, but i doubt he'd have approved of all that TP's $ going to waste.

    The drafting of the American constitution…wasn't that based on a French document – Trudeau again!

  • Jan

    Maybe he could channel Charlton Heston for it.

  • MostlyCivil

    "Julian Fantino has just arrived at Rideau Hall for today’s cabinet shuffle. At last report he had no idea what was going on."

    Update:

    No change.

  • Jan

    Moses parting the Red Sea?

  • BCer in Mtl

    Bobby Baun playing with a fracture in his foot and wining the Stanley Cup. Or Bobby Orr, doing anything.

  • Merrill S

    Cherry's too old for the Senate, he'll have to be Lt. Gov.

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