Yes, there's every reason to be outraged about the Cons' obscene amount of publicly-funded political advertising. But while most of the attention today is to the latest dollar amount (featuring a full campaign's worth of advertising in the first three months of 2011 on a single issue), I'd think the bigger need in the longer term is to focus in on the content of government advertising.
To wit: is there nobody responsible to ensure a bare standard of accuracy in government advertising - e.g. that measures introduced long before there was any inkling of an "economic action plan" not be publicly advertised as part of that discrete plan for political purposes?
If not, why not?
And if so, how have they not resigned out of embarrassment at being ignored and/or overruled?
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