Harper's Communications Director also jumping ship

[mentalfloss]

Jason MacDonald leaving Prime Minister's Office 7 months before election

Stephen Harper's chief spokesman is leaving the Prime Minister's Office seven months before the official start of the next federal election campaign, a source said Friday.

Jason MacDonald, the prime minister's director of communications, took on the job in September 2013, after the previous spokesman, Andrew MacDougall, left. MacDonald had been the director of communications to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt.

Rob Nicol, vice-president of corporate affairs at Canadian Tire, will take over from MacDonald. MacDonald will join the public relations and lobbying firm Hill & Knowlton.

http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/politics/j...r-s-office-7-months-before-election-1.2956974

 

[damngrumpy]

This is interesting the communications director before that the MP
strange as she is and before that her boyfriend an insider in the Tory
machine jumped ship and a former cabinet minister has decided to call
it a day. Speculation, some are thinking maybe there is different info
than we are being told. A cabinet minister who steps down and does not
run get a bigger pension. Could it be there is some doubt as too who is
going to win the next election?

 

[Angstrom]

I've already called it. There will be more that jump ship in the following weeks

 

[tay]

8 people says something must be wrong with this job.....






Jason MacDonald, who had been in the job for almost 17 months, will formally leave next week, the source told Reuters.




MacDonald, the eighth person to act as chief spokesman for Harper, will join the Hill and Knowlton public relations firm, said another source with knowledge of the situation.





MacDonald did not respond to a request for comment.




Top spokesman for Canadian prime minister to quit: source | Top News | Reuters

 

[lone wolf]

New Tory employment minister brings American-style right-wing agenda to the job | Vancouver Observer

Makes you wonder when the ship starts shedding.....

 

[Zipperfish]

Sounds like a good fit for Ezra, not that he's unemployed.

 

[personal touch]

poor sports

 

[Kreskin]

This happens as a tradition in Canada. One guy becomes PM for 2 or 3 elections and is bound to get blasted in the last. Liberals will get in, win a couple then all the rats will jump ship just before they're thumped.