“I’ve heard some of the allegations made by someone named Tom Flanagan. I don’t know who he is. I’ve never seen this man on Parliament Hill. Um, he is a Canadian, I understand, and he is entitled to his opinion.” – Shelly Glover on Power and Politics
From Flanagan’s wiki,
At the invitation of Preston Manning, Flanagan went to work for the Reform Party of Canada in 1991 as Director of Policy, Strategy, and Research. After some differences with Manning, Flanagan resigned his position at the end of 1993. The whole story is told in Flanagan’s 1995 book Waiting for the Wave: The Reform Party and Preston Manning. In the second edition of this book (2009), Flanagan is more sympathetic to Manning than he was in the first edition.
In 2001, Flanagan, along with other friends of Stephen Harper, agreed to help Harper seek the leadership of the Canadian Alliance. Although it was not the original plan, Flanagan ended up managing the campaign, and Harper went on to win the Alliance leadership in March 2002. Flanagan then went to Ottawa for a year to serve as chief of staff to Harper, who was then the Leader of the Opposition.
Flanagan returned to Calgary in 2003 but continued as campaign manager to get the Canadian Alliance ready for the next election. But before that election could take place, the Alliance merged in late 2003 with the Progressive Conservatives to form the new Conservative Party of Canada. Flanagan then managed Harper’s successful leadership race against Belinda Stronach and Tony Clement. After that was concluded, Flanagan organized and managed the Conservative national campaign for the general election of June 28, 2004. The Conservative Party lost that election but did succeed in bringing Paul Martin’s Liberals down to a minority government, which set the stage for future Conservative victories.
At Harper’s request, Flanagan stayed on as campaign manager, commuting between Calgary and Ottawa to prepare the next campaign. After the Conservatives failed to force an election in the spring of 2005, Flanagan retired in favour of Doug Finley but returned to work as a war-room communications adviser in the eight-week campaign leading up the election of January 23, 2006. The story of all these campaigns is told in Flanagan’s book Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power (2007, second edition 2009).
D’oh!
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Patrick Cahalan 
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Tod Kelly 
Tom Van Dyke 
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James Hanley 
Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I’m just listening with sadness…a little sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt,
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