Con government at work

It's problematic enough that the Cons awarded a $69,000 sole-source negotiating contract to one of their candidate's campaign managers. And even more so that they then tried to justify it as an emergency situation.

But it takes the Cons at their worst to start from that position, and then order their "emergency" negotiator to avoid any actual negotiations:

Pharmacists in both territories report that Health Canada gave Bargery no room to negotiate, so talks soon stalled again. Bargery's contract ran until May 31, 2008, according to Health Canada's website.

Which nicely sums up the Cons' tenure in office: searching for excuses to pay their cronies to do nothing, while conspicuously failing to accomplish anything. But hopefully, Canadians will soon take advantage of their opportunity to end the Cons' stay in power.