About That Transparency & Accountability Thing

The federal Conservatives have quietly killed a giant information registry that was used by lawyers, academics, journalists and ordinary citizens to hold government accountable.

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I wonder how many people will remember this when the next election is called and they haul out the good ‘ole “transparent and accountable” platform plank and dust it off a bit.

– and when they do, with it be attached to the party stage with “listen here you Liberano commie freak, they was worse and you know it” nail?

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This entry was posted by stageleft on Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 and is filed under Canada, Canadian Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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One Response to “About That Transparency & Accountability Thing”

  1. throbbin on May 3rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    I think most Canadians will not care come election time – I think most don’t care now. Our democracy (I know you hate people using that term) has become lazy and unmotivated.

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