Finley Fires Mime

Rumours are swirling wildly around Ottawa today that Human Resources and Lack of Development Minister Diane Finley is about to be blindsided by an irate President Harper.

Sources say her lacklustre performance in the Commons and her inability to sell the Republican-Conservative national babysitting plan has prompted the cat lover to consider shuffling Finley to a less bright portfolio.

Finley was so outraged at the thought of being demoted she fired her personal mime Lisa Murray, a graduate of the Sandra Buckler school of mime communications. Murray is the second director of hand gestures to be given the boot under Finley. She won't be the last.