If politicians are good at one thing, they are usually good at telling a story that serves their purpose even if it isn’t, strictly speaking, actually what happened.
Last week’s cabinet shuffle is a fine example of that. The story started on the day of the shuffle. The story appears, in its entirety, in a great column by CBC’s David Cochrane. He’s accurately repeated the story as Conservative politicians and staffers conveyed it to him.
No one should doubt Cochrane got the story they told him absolutely correctly.
The thing is, the story Cochrane heard from the politicians isn’t what happened.
Here’s how you can tell.
