1. To my Twitter friends with whom I am exchanging on the issue of #Tofino, I asked you to remember that I am commenting from the viewpoint political communications strategy, and therefore that my critique of the Prime Minister and the PMO is strictly about that aspect.
2. I haven't suddenly gone rogue, and I'm not claiming that he's a phony.

I'm simply pointing out where there were planning, communications, and expectation management failings, and how things could have been done better.
3. And I don't think there's any doubt that things could have been done better, for had they been done better, #Tofino would not be the issue that has generated the most activity on my feed since WE.
4. The very fact that this is the story means that somewhere, somehow, in the Prime Minister's Office, somebody screwed something up.

I'd like it or not, it was a rather big screw up.

It's OK to look at your team with a cocked brow every now and then and go: "Really?!?"

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