Thursday, January 13, 2011

Just wondering

No, it isn't necessarily inconsistent for an anti-government dogmatist like Stephen Harper to posture about "red tape" in the private sector while shackling public employees.

But Susan Delacourt's post of the Cons' form "message event proposal" does raise a couple of questions that I don't recall being asked the first time they were in the news. Namely, when does the government of Canada - as distinct from the Conservative Party or its MPs - ever engage in tactics such as direct mailouts and op-eds? And if the answer is "rarely if ever", then is there reason to wonder whether the resources used in developing MEPs are finding their way into partisan systems?

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