No wonder the Tories were suspicious about large swathes of the public service. This is unbelievable. https://t.co/l1P1PUFL2v
— John Ivison (@IvisonJ) November 7, 2015
And here's Canada's professional & strictly non-partisan civil service greeting Justin Timberlake, I mean Trudeau. pic.twitter.com/l9UT1wsNCC
— Scott Gilmore (@Scott_Gilmore) November 6, 2015
Should you get another chance at majority government, dear Conservatives, this time don’t throw it away. Purge.
I happened on either CTV or CBC this morning. I did not choose to click on to it. There was an absolute gloating over the fact that Rona Ambrose is not bi-lingual. Stressing the awkwardness of a Francophone Conservative translating for her.
They gloated over the problems she would have it she attained the actual position as leader of the opposition.
They never stop. The unmitigated charlatans, shills, political flunkies.
Skip
Your friend should go back and look at the career – or end of such or Francois Beaudoin – head of the BDC. He did not carry the Librano water and look what happened to him. Find me a civil service bureaucrat who suffered similarly at the hands of Harper. You wont.
I have worked in government before on a contract position in the communications department, and I can tell you that in terms of productivity, you could run the place on 60% less staff, and on waste you could save huge sums as well.
Government employees are insulated from reality, I think what your friend describes as hate is likely more apt to not having their a**es kissed and having some of their perks cut back on.
Honestly it is a joke what is required of a huge number of public service employees.
Partly agree with JI, partly with Colin the civil ..servant?
Bought a book yesterday Doald J Savoie; What is Government good at?
Have not started it yet, the writer is a University Dweller so I do not expect much.
However I bought it hoping to be offered some evidence that government is good for anything at all, besides providing low grade morality plays.
As we no longer have consensus as to what is moral behaviour, I doubt we can long sustain even the illusion of civilization.
As for giving up.. yes I am cutting my work hours back, doing lots of things I was saving for retirement, starve the beast.
Give up on politics? Hell no, as we are about to see a true demonstration of fools getting what they wished for.
I am coming around to supporting a much better conservative media, as Ezra is proposing, but the old media is almost done, Small Dead Animals is already providing a new better medium for political conversation.
Buy metals, ammo, legally lose any weapons that can be traced to you.
We are going to see comedy gold.
Government Marijuana? Oh yeah. Scarce, overpriced and impotent.
Want a Sand shortage or healthcare lines? Let government provide .
Long Form Census..”
.Mummy those nasty taxpayer keep mocking me”
International convention on small arms? Allan Rock will be back.
Can they be any less effective than last time, with a forwarned citizenry?
Ministry of truth, Climate Change,Carpetbagging, Thjose swooning parasites who infest these ministries are going to reap the Libtard special.
The West Wants Out, will provide days of entertainment, except Ottawa will be too thick to realize the West will become deadly serious.
This is baked into Trudeau two’s character, only Quebec can provide competent leaders, there is no arrogance like that of the truly stupid.
And Geographically the politics line up beautifully, you could argue for a division straight down the Ontario, Quebec border cut across at North Bay to Georgian Bay.
As for the 60% of us who prefer to take, over make..That will change once the Kleptocracy implodes in Ontario, even a 40c dollar cannot save that mess.
Far too many people I know, bought the meme “Politicians are like diapers, you have to change them regularly”
They do not like my response; “So you put the crusted ones back on a baby?”.
The appalling behaviour of our current presstituites does not go unnoticed by the nonpartisan citizen,the circulation of the media party has tanked by a damn sight more than 40% over the last decade.
As the Trump campaign is showing us , the public is well aware the media lies and treat them accordingly.
I am ordering the T shirt”Don’t Blame Me.I voted conservative.”
Nanook: It doesn’t matter, because, as Justin (the commenter, not the shiny pony) mentioned, some 65% of Canadians would not vote Conservative. So this huge left of centre mass will dominate Canadian politics for the foreseeable future. The topics that will dominate the political discourse will be (1) climate change; (2) clean energy; (3) and the “honest broker” stance in international issues. (1) and (2) are related, and they are central to the “one world government” scheme being cooked up at the UN and financed by Soros. Number (3) will bring the softening of our position globally. All three points will make Canada under the Trudeau regime very much liked by the international community at large, which is part of what they crave. The media will rally the masses around (1), (2), and (3) (just notice how they are trying to make the cancelling – for now – of the Keystone pipeline as a “good thing”, while the US increased their pipeline capacity by 10% over the past 5 years. They took the “new era for US/Canada relations and ran with it). Those 65% of Canadians that did not vote for the Conservative Party will be more than happy to be told that we are saving the planet and championing social justice in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, Russia under Putin will continue to flex its muscles and consolidate its influence…
I get more useful information and in depth knowledge from the posters in SDA and Kate’s item selection than almost any media I refer to. Thanks for passing on your personal experiences.
Rona is the wrong type of “diverse”: she’s woman in the conservative party. Strap a f@#$ng hijab on her head and the media would not only not care about her language skills; they would champion every possible accommodation that she requests – may be even orienting the parliament towards Mecca.
Is that a halo I see around the Dauphin’s head?
I wonder if they make one that says “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted Libertarian”? Yes, I actually had a Libertarian candidate in my riding for the first time in my life.
People paid by the government should not be allowed to vote. It’s classic conflict of interest.
Ward
Your “contract position” doesn’t qualify you for squat concerning the real workings of government, or the people employed in it. Come back to the conversation when you’ve got 25 or 30 years invested.
The presstitutes that are criticizing Ms. Ambrose for her lack of competency in French are overlooking, as is their want, that she speaks Portuguese and Spanish.
Having cancelled my cable when the CRTC decided against SUN NEWS I haven’t been privy to the media lovefest so I can’t comment on the CBC anymore other than to say they are long past their best before date, which in looking back was just shortly after Lorne Greene left the broadcast booth and settled on the Ponderosa.
I just watched this. Now, if you will excuse me, I am going to go throw up.
Program expenditures in 2014/15: 254 billion
Progarm expenditures in 2005/06: 175 billion
Yeah, you hard-done-by parasites really took it on the chin, didn’t you.
Yes, agreed.
How sweet. After all that waiting they finally have their own Dear Leader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T_Bg4UccJc
“25 years invested’
Heh.
That is the problem.
25 years of living off of the efforts of others.
That is one hell of an investment.
An investment I as a taxpayer made in you?
So what kind of return did I get?
Is Canada a better place thanks to your “service”?
your quite right there was conservative Public Service staff but eventually they had to stop saying so because of the hamfisted way they did thing, those Omibill were terribly written and stupid way to govern, fewer but better thought out changes would have helped them at re-election time. Even the cuts to the Public Service only lasted for a bit, because they seriously underestimated the amount of work and had to hire people after surplussing the good ones. Our national manager got 15 minutes notice of the extent of the cuts (40%) to the program and no input was allowed by the national or regional managers so they could figure the best way to cut, it was all done in Ottawa with predictable results.
Scary, but it was there for all to see over the last 10 years.
You have nailed it – hide assetts, as the Liebrals will scoop anything up.
This is not going to end well. Typically when a man with the intellect of a box of hammers is involved things go wrong.