Friday, July 10, 2009 4:09 PM
Who knew?
Adam Radwanski
The spin this week has been that it was the manner in which Diane Ablonczy announced funding for Pride Toronto, more than the funding itself, that got her in trouble. So what to make of the assertion, by a Conservative source, that the event at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel last month was on the scheduled roll-out of summer spending announcements, and thus had PMO sign-off?
If my source is correct - and I'm not able to track down 100% verification, because I'm buried in municipal politics today - it would seem that Kady O'Malley was on to something earlier this week, when she implied that the Conservatives basically got spooked by a Charles McVety-led outcry a couple of weeks after the fact, rather than feeling blind-sided by the announcement at the time.
If so, Monte Solberg's lament about his friend being thrown under the bus would be even more apt.
