Then you see a few wisps of smoke from various cracks and the boss leans out and says “Everything’s fine. “At all times, I and those around me acted with integrity and a singular focus on the best interests of all Canadians,” Butts said in his resignation statement, Monday. Butts previously worked in another building, Queen’s Park, where, a few years after he left, the kerosene-scented denizens had their own suspicious billion-dollar gas fire. Or maybe Butts concluded, based on the staggering ineptitude of the ever-changing stories, that nobody was doing damage control, just damage, with a bucket of gasoline they inexplicably mistook for water. “It is in the best interests of the office and its important work for me to step away,” Butts explained in his statement.

Source: National Post February 19, 2019 13:07 UTC