Manipulating the numbers

Lest anybody think that Vic Toews' plan to track crime based on surveys rather than actual reported crimes was the only example, Dr. Dawg points out another triumph of the Cons' propensity putting perception over reality - this time when it comes to employment equity:

Barrados said the (Public Service Commission) devised a new way of counting, which showed 17.3 per cent of all hires last year are visible minorities compared with earlier estimates of 9.5 per cent. To complicate matters, Treasury Board released, on the same day, its long-overdue employment equity reports showing visible minorities are still under-represented and their numbers are about half of those estimated by the commission.

No word yet as to when the Cons will claim that there isn't actually a recession taking place based on self-reporting from a focus group of Jason Kenney.