Harper or Canada

 

21/03/ 2011

It has been hard to keep up with all the Harper Conservative scandals these days. We have seen “in and out “schemes, ministers doctoring documents, ministers’ offices being used for partisan fundraising, Harper refusing to provide parliament with the cost of his jets, prisons and corporate tax cuts and the latest scandal where one of Harper’s former top advisors is selling his connections to the PM.

But, for me, there was one item that really stood out. It seems that Harper’s office has sent out a directive to public servants directing them to replace the “Government of Canada” in federal communications with the “Harper Government”. It is almost like Harper has appointed himself dictator and that the country is him. Mel Cappe a former clerk of the Privy Council said, “it is not the Harper Government, it is the Government of Canada”.

Mr. Cappe is right. It is my government and it is your government; it is not Harper’s government.