Harper’s loyal, patronizing and new spokesman on ‘in-and-out’

Tory strategy downplays the seriousness of the controversy, as cameras fix not on a Cabinet minister, but a young party loyalist Pierre Poilievre.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre, who observers call both wily and patronizing, has been given the task of defending the government over the "in-and-out" election financing controversy, and like a good soldier, he seemed to take more questions than any other government MP in Question Period last ...

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