Guergis was innocent

pBad enough at least for Stephen Harper to put the Mounties on her?

And dump her from cabinet. And out of the caucus, And fix it so she can’t ever run again for the party.

It must have been something. Harper won’t say what. Nor will the RCMP.

The private dick from Toronto, Derrick Snowdy says “she ain’t done nothing” he knows about.

Guergis swears Harper never told her what she did. Maybe it was something her husband did. She told Peter Mansbridge that Harper doesn’t like her husband, Rahim Jaffer. Maybe that’s it.

So did the voters of his Edmonton riding. They turfed him out of office in the last election.

After that, Jaffer kept turning up on the doorsteps of Conservative cabinet minister buddies doing things that looked a lot like lobbying without a permit.

Not smart. But luckily for him, he was dealing with Conservatives. He did the rounds with six ministers and none of them ever noticed. Or maybe they did.

Jaffer was such a great lobbyist that he never made a deal, never got a grant. Never made a cent.

Back in Harper’s office, they figure “Hey, quick, that’s it.”

Out comes flack-master Dimitri Soudas heaving a shovelful of Harper logic: “Since Jaffer didn’t get any government contracts or grants he didn’t break any law.``

No money, no crime! Right?

Harper logic: Try robbing a bank.Get caught first.

No money stolen; no law broken. Right!

New twist to the “Conservative crime agenda.”

In the end there's not a shred of evidence the lady did anything wrong.

Bad spousal choice? Maybe. But since when is that a crime? If it were, the jails would be packed.

Out comes the flack-master once again to announce: “the Guergis thing is behind us.”

That’s great except it's not behind the lady. She's out of a $75,500 cabinet job, sitting in the nosebleed section of the Opposition benches waiting for her term to expire.

And nobody has told her yet what she did wrong.

It sure is nice to be prime minister and decide who you like and who you don’t, and who you fire without producing so much as a shred of evidence against the woman.