Mr. Speaker, Conservatives at all levels are finding new ways to mess up damage control.
They took the Senate expense controversy, and in trying to quiet it down before their convention, instead blew it up all over the front pages.
Throughout the scandal, the Prime Minister will not answer for what is going on in his office, will not answer for his changing stories, will not answer for the actions of his appointees, and of course now the RCMP is knocking at the door of the PMO looking for evidence.
Then there is Conservative Rob Ford. Mayor Ford is doing his best to make the Prime Minister's crisis management look good.
First his brother is sent out to blame the police chief; then the mayor admits to smoking illegal drugs; later, instead of doing the right thing, the troubled mayor launched his re-election campaign.
It is all in a day's work for the Conservative damage control machine. Canadians deserve better, and Torontonians deserve better.