Clement enters denial mode

Remember a couple of days back when it was reported that Tony Clement claimed to have opposed the changes to the census? Well, now he's denying he ever said that:

I did not say the words Mr. Siddiqui attributes to me. I support the decision and participated in this decision from the get-go. To assert otherwise is incorrect.

What to make of this? Hard to say; it could be that Siddiqui's article was somehow mistaken, though you'd wonder how a journalist with one of Canada's most respected dailies could make such an error. Or, it could be that Harper has ordered Clement to take back what he said about the census. Hard to say what's really going on here...