Ethics commish

This may be the right move, but it looks pretty bad.  Shapiro has been brutal, and deserves to be turfed from what I've seen.  However the optics are not pretty. 

 

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is preparing to dump the ethics commissioner and is actively recruiting replacement candidates, CTV News has learned...The news of a possible shake-up comes just days after ethics commissioner Bernard Shapiro announced he would look into conflict-of-interest allegations against Harper.

 

Harper's communications director Sandra Buckler said the prime minister is "loath to co-operate with an individual whose decision-making ability has been questioned and who has been found in contempt of the House."

Too bad Ed Broadbent turned down the job.  The optics of that would have been great.  Maybe Bob Rae is available...or Roy Romanow.   Or maybe there is an ethical Liberal who was defeated that could do the job.  Right?  Anyone?  Must be someone...