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Garth Turner's friend in the House of Commons

Glancing at the Wikipedia entry for Liberal MP Garth Turner, I noticed an interesting edit that came and went in the space of two hours yesterday.  And the identity of the person making the edit is doubly interesting.




is a polarizing figure.  A former Tory MP, he was ejected from for breaking caucus confidentiality.  After a stint as an independent, he joined .

Though Garth Turner professes to be more at home with the Liberals, he can't be too happy with being labelled as someone who cannot be trusted with a confidence.

On December 13, at 3:48 in the afternoon, someone made this change to Garth Turner's Wikipedia entry:

On 18 October 2006, the Conservative caucus voted to suspend Turner for an alleged, unproven and undocumented violation of caucus confidentiality.

In a little bit more than two hours, the text was reverted by a editor:

On 18 October 2006, the Conservative caucus voted to suspend Turner for a violation of caucus confidentiality.

Garth Turner Clearly someone thought Garth Turner was getting a raw deal. 

Who was this person?  Just a random fan?  We only know him or her by the IP address: 192.197.82.153.

But that IP address is assigned to the Canadian House of Commons.  Emails from MPs go through this IP address.

It certainly looks like an MP (or a staffer) was trying to help out Garth Turner.

Of course, I wonder who it was.  MPs were sitting yesterday afternoon.  Well, whoever it was, he or she ought to be grateful that didn't catch sight of the questionable editing.  She might have felt compelled to stand up and declare that one of her fellow MPs was guilty of historical revisionism.

Well, she would have been right on that one.  For once.


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