We still don't know much about Stephen Harper's secret visit to the White House. Or what he might have talked about with Donald Trump's senior economic adviser Larry Kudlow.
For that picture of Harper leaving the West Wing with his business partner Ray Novak, is the only evidence some kind of meeting took place, and nobody is talking.
Repeated attempts to confirm the reports of any meeting between Harper and Trump officials were met with silence until after the meeting was completed, and Harper’s team has still not responded to requests for more details about the meeting.
But at least we know that Harper and his beloved Robin Novak, are still together.
Well we knew Stephen Harper was going to go into business from the moment he knocked on the door of Calgary's Petroleum Club.
But surprisingly enough he is not going to work for Big Oil, at least not yet.
Even though working in the mail room of Imperial Oil, where his daddy worked, was his only previous business experience.
He's setting up his own consulting company.
It was the day Stephen Harper had been dreading. The one that has forced him to keep such a low profile some are calling him the invisible man of Parliament.
Or depending on your point of view, the invisible maniac...
Driven crazy by defeat.
It was the dreaded day Mike Duffy mounted the stand, and pointed the finger at HIM.
Stephen Harper did something yesterday that he hasn't done before. He actually mentioned the name of Ray Novak.
But even though Novak has now been shown to be at the heart of the Duffy scandal.
Harper is still refusing to fire him.
I can only imagine Stephen Harper's state of mind, after what must have been for him a week in the hell of his own making.
For it was the week the Duffy scandal shredded what was left of his credibility. The week his campaign went off the rails.
The week that revealed the ugly face of his angry old Con base...
And ended with Great Desperate Leader defiling young Canadians.
Benjamin Perrin had only been the PMO lawyer for a year before the Duffy scandal erupted so he wasn't part of the Con cult.
He never drank the Koolaid.
So today when his turn came to testify at the Duffy trial he let the truth fly.
And managed to knock down Stephen Harper, Nigel Wright, and Ray Novak.
He's trying to carry on his campaign as if nothing has changed. As if the Duffy trial was a mere distraction.
But Stephen Harper couldn't conceal a wince yesterday, when reporters asked him about his beloved Ray Novak.
And whether he was planning to fire him.
It's the smoking gun. Or should I say the smoking flamethrower?
The Con conspiracy has finally been exposed.
It now seems that Ray Novak, Harper's beloved Chief of Staff, knew all about Nigel Wright's payment to Mike Duffy.
Well he can run but he can't hide. Everywhere Chicken Harper goes he is dogged by the Duffy scandal.
And asked to answer the latest burning question:
If his beloved aide Ray Novak knew all about the attempted cover-up and Nigel Wright's scheme to pay off Ol' Duff, why did he stay silent and allow Con cabinet ministers to lie like thieves?
And why hasn't Harper fired him?
When Stephen Harper decided to launch the election campaign into the midsummer storm of the Duffy trial, he must have thought he could get away with it.
His criminal mind must have hoped that the campaign would distract Canadians, and limit the damage to him and his Cons.
But as even John Ivison points out, with every passing day that decision is looking more and more disastrous.
Ever since the trial of Mike Duffy began, his lawyer Donald Bayne has been circling over Stephen Harper, like a hawk over a rabbit.
But today all that changed.
When Bayne swooped out of the sky, and went in for the kill.
He is angry, he is desperate, his whole world is collapsing around him under the weight of scandal.
The Duffy problem just keeps getting worse.
Making it almost impossible to claim that he didn't know what was going on.
His shell shocked caucus is revolting. Demanding that he do something, anything, to make this nightmare go away.
But at least now he has his boy wonder running him AND the PMO.
