Look over there! A diversion!

While PMS' eagerness to appear before the Senate may be explained in large part by his perennial urge to play political chicken, one has to figure he was also eager to push Michael Donison's appearance out of the news. So let's take a moment to note that the Cons' executive director continued to spout the implausible theory that anything goes as long as a convention doesn't turn a profit, then avoided the media afterward:

Donison also responded to a controversy surrounding the party's failure to declare delegate fees from its 2005 policy convention. He said the party interpreted party financing rules to mean that if the convention broke even or lost money, it did not have to declare delegate fees as contributions.

"This is one of those situations where it is very much a matter of interpretation, and I said that matter is with Elections Canada," Donison said. "As far as we're concerned, we complied with the law and we will comply with it in the future, whatever is determined is fair."...

He would not answer media questions following the committee appearance about the party's nomination process, which has come under fire from several grassroots party members attempting to run for riding nominations. One group of members is seeking a judicial review of the process.

Sadly, the Libs seem eager to give Harper the chance to deflect attention from his own party's questionable interpretation of both its own rules and those of Elections Canada. Which is a shame, since the Cons continue to give Canadians plenty of reasons not to trust them - if only those reasons managed to get noticed amidst Harper's sideshow.