Oh boy, it wasn’t a one-off.
Over the past few days, Stephen Harper has been blaming Quebec for his own lack of enthusiasm regarding the Charter’s 30th anniversary (see my post from yesterday). Now, Treasury Board President Tony Clement is blaming the unions for the government’s secretive ways with massive job cuts in the public sector. And he’s doing it while attending a conference on “open government” in Brazil!
In last month’s budget, the government announced that it’s cutting 19 200 public service jobs over three years, but it won’t release sizeable chunks of information on what’s being cut until… spring 2013. Clement claims that he has no choice, but this is patently nonsense. And we already know (see the same G&M article linked above) that the initial plan by the bureaucracy was to release the information in May of this year; but this was overruled by Treasury Board, which instructed departments to withhold the data.
So, here’s today summary: the government cuts jobs (unnecessarily, by the way) and hides the information; the minister blames the people being cut while claiming to be all about open government.
It’s sick. Worse, there’s a method to their sickness.
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