The provincial Liberals are just going to love this: according to the rumour mill, former New Democrat insiders Shari Graydon and Chris Chilton wil be staffing federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh's office. Ms. Graydon was a Vancouver Sun columnist before she became the ex-premier's press secretary. She is also married to former West Vancouver-Garibaldi Liberal MLA David Mitchell.

Mr. Chilton was Mike Harcourt's chief of staff until it was discovered he had used provincial communication contracts to secretly funnel government work to party apparatchiks. He was then parachuted into the health ministry as a $125,000 senior bureaucrat. Mr. Chilton moved back into the West Annex when then Mr. Dosanjh became premier, becoming his chief of staff.