Now THAT's advance work!!!

From today's Globe and Mail online update. There's something ironic about this...I kinda half expect that his political staff was up all night making crank calls and forgot to report for work.

O'Connor fails to get detainee meeting

KANDAHAR - Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor's attempts to meet with the head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission failed Monday when he discovered the organization's director wasn't in Kandahar.
Mr. O'Connor said after arriving Sunday night that he wanted to meet AIHRC head Abdul Qadar Noorzai to look him in the eye and confirm that his group, the newly appointed monitors of Canada's detainee agreement, are "going to do what they say they're going to do."
But the meeting was cancelled late Monday afternoon when it emerged that Mr. Noorzai was in neighbouring Helmand province. It's not known why Mr. Noorzai was in Helmand or whether the meeting will be rescheduled. Mr. O'Connor recently announced that Canada has asked the AIHRC to monitor detainees handed over to Afghan authorities. Unlike Britain and the Netherlands, Canada did not retain the right to verify that detainees transferred to Afghan custody are being properly treated.

H/t to gmac.