A PMO source says Prime Minister Harper will halve David Emerson's workload -- he is both Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of International Trade (as well as carrying the regional portfolios of the 2010 Olympics and Pacific Gateway) -- before Canada Day.... In the third and final installment in that magazine's June issue, he has this MP's-eye view of the rumour and speculation the press here have been involved in recently on this issue: It’s not clear which is psychologically worse: getting bounced from Cabinet or being passed over for a position.... Grown men and women, accomplished and respected in their fields before coming to Ottawa, are reduced to nervous, insecure children when the rumours start flying about a Cabinet shuffle.

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