Why Has Stephen Harper Not Fired Chuck Strahl?

It's been more than two days since we found out that Chuck Strahl, Canada's spy watchdog, is moonlighting as a lobbyist for Enbridge.

And by so doing has erased the boundaries between the petro state and the surveillance state.

Now to make matters even worse, we find out that Strahl is also a lobbyist for a First Nations' energy company with links to China. 

Strahl, who was Aboriginal Affairs minister from 2007 to 2010, registered with Alberta’s lobbyist registry on Dec. 3, 2013, to lobby for Frog Lake Energy Resources Corp. The energy firm has partnered with Chinese-financed Windtalker Energy Corp to drill for oil on Frog Lake’s territory.

Which makes this question even more important: Why hasn't he resigned or been fired?

The Spy Watchdog and the Northern Gateway Pipeline

Well it seems that Stephen Harper is pulling out all the stops to try to crush all opposition to his Northern Gateway pipeline.

By not only getting the National Energy Board to rubber-stamp his insane project.

But also by getting Canada's top spy watchdog to lobby for the pipeline maniacs from Enbridge.