mentalfloss Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 Federal bureaucrats posed as ‘new Canadians’ for Sun News event Documents released under Access to Information legislation show that just a few weeks before Canada’s Citizenship Week last October, Mr. Kenney’s staff directed departmental officials to add a last-minute citizenship ceremony at the network to their list of scheduled events. Bureaucrats scrambled to work out the logistics, suggesting to the minister’s office that Sun News could cover one of the 13 scheduled ceremonies in Ontario – four of them in Toronto, including one at the Air Canada Centre. When a bureaucrat sent Sun News a list of possible citizenship ceremonies to cover in Ontario, a network employee suggested another scenario. “Let’s do it. We can fake the Oath,” reads an email from a sunmedia.ca email address, the name blacked out of the document. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/federal-bureaucrats-posed-as-new-canadians-for-sun-news-event/article2323570/page2/ Quote
waldo Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 Mr. Kenney has emphasized the solemnity* of the act of citizenship * inclusive of busing in fake government stand-ins Quote
Michael Hardner Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 Staged events... par for the course with governments who still plan their communications around TV video bites... Quote Click to learn why Climate Change is caused by HUMANS Michael Hardner
Wild Bill Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 Staged events... par for the course with governments who still plan their communications around TV video bites... Yep, as I keep saying, there is no discernible difference between this CPC and the old PC party of the Mulroney days. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss! Quote "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw "There is no point in being difficult when, with a little extra effort, you can be completely impossible."
Shakeyhands Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 In comment and completely out of character for this Government, they have of course... blamed a bureaucrat. Quote "They muddy the water, to make it seem deep." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Topaz Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 Well they have to blame someone, after all.... kenney said "I didn't know until I saw it on TV" Quote
Smallc Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 Well, maybe he didn't know until he saw it on TV. Quote
Shakeyhands Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 Well, maybe he didn't know until he saw it on TV. You know that NOTHING happens with anything to do with this Gov't that hasn't been vetted by, at the very, very least, the Ministers office. Let's not forget their little MEP tool, I have no doubt that the PMO knew about the event taking place, if not the stand ins. Quote "They muddy the water, to make it seem deep." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Smallc Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 You know that NOTHING happens with anything to do with this Gov't that hasn't been vetted by, at the very, very least, the Ministers office. That isn't true, and even if it is, that doesn't mean that the minister himself knew. Quote
Guest Manny Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 Don't you love farce? My fault, I fear. I thought that you'd want what I want... Sorry, my dear! Where are the clowns? Send in the clowns. Don't bother, they're already here... Quote
guyser Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 That isn't true, and even if it is, that doesn't mean that the minister himself knew. I know a Ministerial Aide for a high profile portfolio and it is her opinion that this govt knows when you fart in bed at night. If this minister didnt know, its because he was told he didnt know so there could be plausible deniability. Quote
Shakeyhands Posted February 3, 2012 Report Posted February 3, 2012 That isn't true, and even if it is, that doesn't mean that the minister himself knew. What is the purpose of the MEP tool then? Quote "They muddy the water, to make it seem deep." - Friedrich Nietzsche
eyeball Posted February 3, 2012 Report Posted February 3, 2012 Yep, as I keep saying, there is no discernible difference between this CPC and the old PC party of the Mulroney days. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss! Meet the new conservatives voters, same as the old one's. Like dogs returning to their vomit they can be counted on to go back and see if there's any difference in the stench they left behind. A lot seem more than happy enough to scarf it back again. Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.
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