Leave it up to Canada to be late for something lol.
Stephen Harper was a no-show for the G-20 group photo shoot in London. There was speculation as to why he was late and the apparent reason for this was that he was in the toilet. Seriously? Could they not have come up with a better excuse, even if that was the real reason?
Sometimes honesty is not always the best policy. Oh well, I guess we get the honor of being made fun of again by the media!
If you were the on the publicity team for Stephen Harper would you have gone with the honesty is the best policy or made up something creative?
I just wanted to take this time to make this super short post to get peoples opinions on this great excuse of a story!
That wasn’t the PMO’s story, that was the story of some of the British contingent who happened to be near the washrooms. After the story broke, the PMO said Harper was being briefed, but, by then it was too late and contradicted the original story so it ran as a “denial” story.
I guess the point is these meetings are so heavily scripted and every leader has so many staff around him just to make sure everything runs smoothly, so it was a screwup for Harper’s staff not to get him to this photo shoot. For someone like Harper that particularly likes things to run smoothly, according to his own script, it was a double screwup. The fact that someone apparently saw him enter the washroom made it into a humorous story that the British press had some fun with.
Thanks the correct info!
Yea, I’m sure the staff are feeling the heat for having him miss it. It sucks that he was the only one. But then again I hear the Italian PM missed the second round of pictures?