CP: Ex-Harris aide to replace Harper intimate at the centre of Obamagate

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper's most senior political adviser will step down in weeks and be replaced by a former chief of staff to ex-Ontario premier Mike Harris, sources said late Wednesday.

Ian Brodie, Harper's chief of staff since he became prime minister more than two years ago, was at the centre of a controversy involving U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama in March.

But an official who knows Brodie said the longtime Harper intimate was planning to leave his job long before that incident led to an investigation into who leaked assurances from the Obama campaign that the Democratic frontrunner's tough talk on NAFTA was essentially rhetoric.

The Prime Minister's Office refused to comment on Brodie's departure, but one government official said the former professor will be gone by end of June and will be replaced by Guy Giorno, a lawyer who served as Mike Harris's chief of staff.

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http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gXkKyxlebGDm73bB3qSFIj5prHFw

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1. Ontario voters may not be amused

Judging from the responses on the CBC site.