Friday, March 21, 2008

Canada's Snoozing Government

The sale of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates - along with its publicly-funded Radarsat-2 satellite - would seem to be a relatively easy issue to deal with on its own. But Jim Prentice says he needs another 30 days - presumably to consider whether he can find a way to justify allowing the deal to go through.

The open disposal of blueprints for a sensitive counter-terrorism facility would seem to be a problem no matter what any investigation could come up with. But Stockwell Day is trying to buy time rather than admitting even that much.

And after one public report and several months of public hearings, there's no real reason to keep pushing off on the expected Mulroney/Schreiber inquiry. But instead of fulfilling his promise, Deceivin' Stephen has now hit the snooze button by requesting yet another report from David Johnston - which itself depends on a not-yet-completed report from the House of Commons ethics committee - before he'll even think of putting the inquiry in motion.

Which leads to the question: shouldn't the federal government have at least some interest in getting things done, rather than spending its time asking the public for unjustified extensions?

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