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Harper: Do As I Say, Not As I Do

Posted on Friday, April 14 at 10:50 by 4Canada
Back on Canada Day 1983, the Liberal administration of the time put into play a principle so fundamental that it's now hard to believe it took so long. Titled the Access to Information Act, it pledged fidelity to the forehead-slapping idea that those electing representatives have an only slightly qualified right to know what their government is doing in their name and with their money. Information freedom was to change the way government worked in ways every bit as profound as the new Prime Minister is promising for accountability. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1144878609726&call_pageid=970599109774&col=Columnist969907626423

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  1. by Deacon
    Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:47 pm
    I can hardly wait until someone on the inside gets so fed up with his imperial highness that he/she realeases a leak so politcally devastating that Harper and his cronies will topple like dominos.

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    "and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

    "The Weapon" - Rush

  2. by brigitte
    Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:05 pm
    AMEN Deacon!

  3. by Perturbed
    Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:26 am
    Ever notice how that whole accountability thing is falling by the wayside.....after promising to change government as we know it. How about real issues Stephen???

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    Multiculturalism is neither left nor right, but rather a sickening indication of what happens when 'representative government' fails the majority. It occurred

  4. by Commonsense101
    Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:35 am
    AMEN indeed! I also can't wait for a government to come along who will focus on the real issues! I mean, hundreds of millions vanishing is a ridiculous thing to address, especially when the security of our rights is being threatened every day by that ominous notwithstanding clause! If only we had a party courageous enough to tackle such serious matters.
    Furthermore I too can't wait for Stephen Harper to fall from grace. Sure, he hasn't done anything yet but I know what's truly in his heart. I might not have met him or even seen him do anything evil, but like I do with Mexicans I will continue to express my unsupported and dogmatic hatred toward him.



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