The Unbearable Lightness Of Harper's Five Vows

These rules, including the bureaucratic "gag order," soon broke down under the weight of their silliness and inability to be enforced. The same awaits the new Draconian information-control measures being imposed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on his government. We in the media, the targets of this manipulation, are predictably unhappy, but we can be confident that the new orders to funnel everything through the PMO and restrict anyone from talking about anything other than the party's five core messages will break down, as did the Mulroney edict. So, instead of getting worked up at this reworked silliness, we should dissect the five points that the Conservatives wish to emphasize. They are, individually and collectively, as politically astute as they are substantively dubious, if not downright stupid. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060318.wxcosimp18/BNStory/specialComment/home [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on March 21, 2006]

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