...but reporters have been planting questions with MPs at committee hearings since the dawn of time. I don't know whether I ever did it with Reform, Alliance or NDP MPs when the Liberals were in government, but I know it got done and if I had a story I needed advancing, I'd have done it in a second. "Hey, you might want to ask about..."

I know this will come as a shock to people who think the state broadcaster must be barred from embarrassing the government. Guys  like Doug Finley.