Cowboys for Social Responsibility: tax·pay·er [taks-pey-er] noun 1. a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.

UPDATE: Turns out that Minister Blaney’s spokesthingy wanted Canadians to know that spending an extra $1 million to destroy long gun registry records “involved no additional costs to the taxpayers.”  Yup. Magic elves. ____________________________________________ After months of stonewalling, today we learned that the Harper government spent $1 million to destroy

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Cowboys for Social Responsibility: tax·pay·er [taks-pey-er] noun 1. a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.

UPDATE: Turns out that Minister Blaney’s spokesthingy wanted Canadians to know that spending an extra $1 million to destroy long gun registry records "involved no additional costs to the taxpayers."  Yup. Magic elves.
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After months of stonewalling, today we learned that the Harper government spent $1 million to destroy long gun registry data.

But

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Cowboys for Social Responsibility: tax·pay·er [taks-pey-er] noun 1. a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.

UPDATE: Turns out that Minister Blaney’s spokesthingy wanted Canadians to know that spending an extra $1 million to destroy long gun registry records “involved no additional costs to the taxpayers.”  Yup. Magic elves. ____________________________________________ After months of stonewalling, today we learned that the Harper government spent $1 million to destroy

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Cowboys for Social Responsibility: Memo to a career backbencher

Memo

To: Conservative Party backbench MPs

From: Someone from a media shop wearing short pants

Subject: Cabinet Shuffle Q&As
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Many of your constituents will be contacting your office to discuss Prime Minister Harper’s New Faces and Experienced Hands cabinet shuffle.  Use these approved talking points to respond to all questions.

Q1) Why

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