The Canadian Environmental Network has had
to close its doors after losing its government funding. Try to look surprised.
Also, cuts are coming to Veterans Affairs, and cut the funding for an important criminology journal – and then told a completely different story about the
chain of events around it. Try to look surprised.
What’s that? It was political pressure that
caused CanNor – the Canadian Northern Development Agency – to break pretty much
every financial rule in the book, in order to establish itself and start
getting money out the door so the government could look like it was delivering
programmes? You don’t say!
Harper is also hinting that Quebec may get
more seats like they’re demanding in the new legislation to correct some of the
current inequities in our representation-by-population model, even if their
population may not warrant it.
Susan Delacourt looks at the recent spate
in rumours of the death of the Liberal Party.
NDP officials are contradicting Thomas
Mulcair’s claims about unfair processing times for Quebec party memberships.
Oops.
NDP rookie Laurin Liu (of the robot hands)
finds it “empowering” that at 20, she’s asking questions to cabinet ministers
old enough to be her grandfather.
And former Liberal cabinet minister and
Treasury Board President Reg Alcock died on Friday. He is seen as the “godfather”
of open government in Canada, who started the practice of putting up government
expenses online and got the ball rolling on a number of accountability measures
that the Conservatives later adopted.
