…and you ain’t in it.
Sun- How those inside the ‘Ottawa bubble’ undermine democracy
After delivering what the Prime Minister described as an “austerity budget” last week, Mark Carney, his Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, and hundreds of lobbyists, political staff, bureaucrats, stakeholders, Liberal cabinet ministers, MPs and journalists celebrated at a popular Ottawa watering hole.
Open Policy Ontario- How Think Tanks and Lobbyists Replaced the Public
The Froggies came up with a cure for this let-them-eat-cakery.
http://www.boisdejustice.com/Drawings/Drawings.html
The Canadian Deep State.
And Tamara pissed them off…so we know how that ends.
Was Chuck Guite handing out brown paper bags?
The sad fact is that this established way Canada works is not sustainable.
For its maintenance it requires the very thing they want to keep a heel on.
“what one veteran public servant calls ‘a closed epistemic circle’ ”
More like a circle jerk…
I think its worse than what Stapleton writes.
Yeah we’re voiceless and powerless tax slaves, but you better not say anything and keep your head down or they’ll cut off your internet access, take your security clearance if you have one, debank you and disemploy you, fine you and maybe jail you.
He doesn’t see malice because he himself is a policy wonk.
But many of us do because we have seen it, as Roaddog wrote above.
They probably had a Two Minutes of Hate episode during the shindig.
So you’re telling me this is… Champagne’s bubble?
That’s as close to sparkling wit as I’ve gotten in some time…
A better descriptor would be…..SWAMP!
How many Liberal subsidized journalists asked the government what their plan was to pay back the latest 😯 billion ‘borrowed’ dollars?
Any that did ask that would be laughed at and sent to sit at the kiddie’s table.
“All told, this budget calls for some $141 billion in new spending over the next five years, which will partially be offset by some $51.2 billion in cuts or a total of $60 billion in cuts and “savings.””
Amazingly, the “cuts” won’t happen, or won’t save as much as advertised, while the spending will be front larded, and all the employees laid off will end up at consulting companies getting paid by the government.
“The budget includes $40 million over two years for a Youth Climate Corps, which will provide paid skills training for young Canadians — an NDP request.”
Do they get fancy red shirts?