The Harper government claims a senior bureaucrat gave it the go-ahead to avoid rules governing the look and feel of its Economic Action Plan website.
Right. Like I said before, harper & Co. can't get rid of all public servants. They need a few to kick around and blame for their own stupidity and corrupt actions.
Of course harper and Hang-'em-high family man Vic have nothing to back that claim. In fact, the paper-trail clearly shows that the TB public servant team leader advised against it.
As current president of TB, Stockie Day is trying to justify Toews and harper's actions, claiming Michelle D'Auray, secretary to TB recommended that the exemption be granted.
But guess what?
Day’s office and the Prime Minister’s Office did not respond to requests to produce the d’Auray document.
This blame the public servant is just the latest in harper's half-assed attempt to brush away criticism over violating very clear TB rules that forbid using federal government sites and resources for partisan purposes. Earlier on, in committee, they tried to say things like the use of Google Map hampered their ability to maintain a common look and feel.
Wow. Odd how inserting a Google Map function can throw off an entire design, create a new one, and add in a youtube clip of harper playing the piano.
Some people may not think that this particular abuse of tax dollars, and politicizing what is supposed to be a non-partisan public service is no big deal, but it is far from an isolated incident. We've been paying for many such CPC/harper promotions, and our federal public service has been used as harper's personal marketing team since he took power: oversized checks carrying the CPC logo, public service websites linking to that tiresome piano playing video, unrelated sites linking to federal budgets, the economic action plan, harper's photo popping up all over the place, public servants used to push the economic action plan ad signs, partisan statements on public service sites...
Where is the clout to enforce accountability on politicians who brazenly thumb their noses at the public while stealing their money to do so?
Every time we do nothing more than shake our heads and say, well, it sucks, but that's politics, we give these corrupt actions our stamp of approval through our simple silence.
For all the griping about taxes, you would think more Canadians would be royally miffed at having any political party dip into our pockets to pay for their own marketing needs - and using those tax dollars to misrepresent their deeds, as well.
