Buckler's Banishment

President Harper's mute communication's director is on the outs in the White House North bunker according to sources who say Sandra Buckler's best days are behind her. Not that there were too many of those days, if any.

With the President sinking in the polls, those around the cat lover say it's time for a shakeup. Buckler was recently humiliated when she arrived at the Ottawa airport to join the President and his Republican entourage for a junket to La Francophonie in Bucharest. As she waddled onto the Challenger, the President told her her services were not needed on this trip. She beat a hasty retreat to the tarmac, hid her humiliation and dashed to the nearest phone to call a taxi.

Hell hath no fury like a women scorned. Buckler was so outraged at being left behind, she summoned all of cabinet's muzzled directors of communications to the Bunker where she instructed each and every one of them to go back to their minister's offices and erase all contact information for journalists from their minister's blackberries.

To quote our source, Buckler said: "I do not want cabinet ministers talking to journalists directly."

Buckler's blowout is causing a firestorm of controversy around town. Some ministers who are fed up with being treated like illiterate school children think it's time the President's hand-picked mime did everyone a favour and quit and let someone with at least a kindergarten knowledge of communications take over.