Inside Politics I

Cabinet appointments another sign of strains on longer-than-expected minority mandate

The fact that disgraced Maxime Bernier is more likely to be re-elected than the stars of last week's mini-shuffle sums up Prime Minister Stephen Harper's enduring staffing predicament.

Stephen Harper's reconfigured Cabinet is a house of cards that will come tumbling down at the first breeze of an election campaign. That is particularly but not exclusively true of the two men who were appointed last Wednesday to give the government a more professional face on the international s...

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