The Prime Minister is in a bit of a political hard spot with questions over what he did with the Eucharistic host at the recent funeral for Romeo LeBlanc.
Some say he didn’t eat it, as one is supposed to do, but rather slipped it into his pocket.
His office insists he did the appropriate thing.
Oh yeah.
There’s video, of course.
But it’s basically a piece of junk that shows absolutely nothing other than the PM accepting the communion wafer like everyone else. If you pay attention to the text slides inserted at the front and the back of the clip, though, you might be fooled into thinking something else happened.
If there’s a question, then perhaps we should look to his staff who may have simply forgotten to make sure that every protocol point was covered.
Frankly, given the occasion – the funeral of a fine and respected gentleman – people should be willing to ignore this even if every accusation were true. The controversy doesn’t damage Stephen Harper so much as it tarnishes the memory of the late governor general.
So let’s just turn the page on that one, shall we?
And if you want to watch a video that will unsettle some Roman Catholics out there, just sit back, relax and enjoy a little vintage Tom Lehrer, complete with the introduction to set the stage and Tom’s momentary lapse of memory for his own lyrics:
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