The “Government of Canada” is no more.
Public servants from four different departments have confirmed to The Canadian Press that they received a directive that the words “Government of Canada” in federal communications be replaced with “I’m Cowboy Steve and this is my Oligarchy.”
The minister in charge of the public service, Treasury Board President Stockwell Day, couldn’t understand the fuss.
“If you think you’re on to something that is going to ignite people from coast to coast in a fury of rage, maybe we’ll look at it,” Day told CBC News. “All men strive to have something named after them. We’ve got McCarthyism, the Heimlich manoeuvre and personally I’m trying to get the rights to “Day Time Running Lights”.
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