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Treasury Board President Tony Clement has apologized for insulting a 15-year-old boy during a Twitter spat over spelling mistakes.
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so much effin' fun!!?!: In other “the Tories are scumbags” news, some Conservative MPs just...
In other “the Tories are scumbags” news, some Conservative MPs just confessed to calling constituents in Liberal MP Irwin Cotler’s electoral riding and telling the constituents that he was resigning and that they should vote Conservative in an upcoming by-election.
The problem? Irwin Cotler is not resigning. They made it up.
I mean, it’s gotten to the point where you expect shit like this. They’ve broken election rules, misappropriated funds, been found in contempt of Parliament, covered up for an MP who doctored a document, and now this. But it doesn’t fucking excuse it.
The MPs who did this should be either charged, kicked out of the house, or at least censured.
Reblogged from so much effin' fun!!?!
Documents show ‘harperization’ of government communications
Top former civil servants say the wording change marks a disturbing new trend in the politicization of the bureaucracy – and breaches both communications policy and the civil service ethics policy.
You don’t want the government putting words in the mouths of your civil servants, and then lying about it? What could go wrong?
Stimulus program failed to measure job-creation, auditor finds
From The Globe and Mail:
The programs examined in this latest report were just three parts of a $47-billion stimulus plan that aimed to fund “shovel ready” construction jobs put forward by provinces and municipalities in an effort to boost employment during the global recession that hit in late 2008.
Even though the main purpose of the program was to create jobs, the Auditor-General’s report found projects were not assessed based on the number of jobs created.
“One of the key objectives of the Community Adjustment Fund was to create or maintain jobs in communities hit hard by the economic downturn,” the report states. “It remains unclear how the government will assess the effectiveness of the Community Adjustment Fund in achieving this objective.”
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Ms. Raitt is doing her best to accelerate her portfolio’s demise. The right to free collective bargaining and the right to strike have been fundamental in this country for more than 70 years. With Ms. Raitt in charge, those rights appear headed for the trash can.
Take the postal workers, and don’t say “please.” Not only did the Lisa Raitt government order them back to work (not new), it imposed wages on the union that were actually lower than the employer’s last offer. Something like that hasn’t happened in Canada since the final daze of “Wacky” Bennett’s Social Credit government out here in the early 1970s.
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The government rushed through spending on the June 2010 G8 and G20 summits without proper documentation or explanation to parliamentarians about how the cash would be spent, he said.
He said government ignored normal protocols when approving infrastructure projects for the G8 summit in the riding of Tory minister Tony Clement — now Treasury Board president — bypassing public servants who generally determine what projects receive funding.
“Rules were broken,” Wiersema told reporters following the committee meeting. “Lawyers could have an interesting debate as to whether any laws were broken.”
The interim A-G said he’s “very concerned” that no government documents exist to explain how the Conservatives selected 32 municipal projects in Clement’s Parry Sound-Muskoka riding that were included in a $50-million G8 Legacy Infrastructure Fund.
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