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Michael Sona Dept: Dire consequences deter indiscretion. Even the most bull-headed staffers would rather ask permission than forgiveness as Mr. Carroll now knows, the latter often ends in revising your re, according to Globe and Mail. So much for dire consequences and every staffer lives in the shadow of self-immolation. Every tweet, every joke, every Facebook message invites the prospect of personal catastrophe. If you screw up, the error is permanent, carved into stone by Google, Twitter, and 24-hour news. In politics, discipline is indispensible and idle hands bedevil your handiwork. Nowhere has this been truer than in Stephen Harper s campaigns and no one knows it better than Michael Sona. During last May s federal election, Mr. Sona, then a Conservative campaign worker, made national headlines when he tried to grab a ballot box at a polling station on the University of Guelph campus. It was a black eye for the Tories but it made little difference; the Liberals held Guelph, the Conservatives won the election and Michael Sona went on to work for a Conservative MP. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.