The lying epidemic that infests the Conservative Cockus.

Yes. We do know how to spell caucus.

But we also like to show reciprocal respect, and to be honest, are you feeling anything but contempt emitting from the CPoC?

This weeks liar liar pants on fire award goes to:

Tony Clement.

OTTAWA - Embattled Industry Minister Tony Clement says the decision to replace next year's mandatory long census with a voluntary questionnaire stemmed from recommendations made to him by Statistics Canada.

But multiple sources are telling The Canadian Press that is not exactly what happened. The sources say Statistics Canada made no recommendations and only came up with policy options because they were asked to do so by Clement.

And they say the data gathering federal agency did not specifically recommend going the voluntary route.

Rather, they suggested that either the status quo or the complete eradication of the long list of questions would be the better way to go, several sources said.

The option chosen by the federal cabinet was not at the top of the list of options, the sources said. Instead, StatsCan told ministers if they insisted on going that route, they would have to spend more money and dramatically increase the size of the survey in an attempt to get accurate results.

"It wasn't recommended," one source said bluntly.

The Harpercons moves are rarely recommended.
By sane people, anyway.

BONUS from the ACR archives: Lies Tony told about the InSite site.
Yup.