One week summary
Feb. 10th, 2006 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusWell, the new Conservative government is five days old.
In that time, Harper has put a pro-war/pro-missile-defence lobbyist in as our Defence Minister. And we haveMike Harris's finance minister (a man who once hid a multi-billion dollar deficit) in charge of the treasury. He put a raving fundamentalist (and a man guilty of violating election-financing laws) in charge of Justice.
Harris' health minister is also in charge of Health, which means he'll try and get a private system in. Meanwhile Harper also turned public safety over to Stockwell Day, who'll probably use his powers to keep us from being stepped on by dinosaurs, or something.
Our new environment minister doesn't care about Kyoto. Our Minister of Heritage doesn't care about Canadian content. Our Minister of Transport has spent his life fighting the spread of subways and buses. Our new foreign affairs minister is most famous for having reneged on a contract.
And I learned today the secretary to the Minister Responsible for the Francophonie (like the Commonwealth for French-speaking nations) doesn't speak French himself.
Our new prime minister broke all his campaign promises about credibility in the first 24 hours, bribing a guy (David Emerson) to come over right after the election. Emerson's voters chose a Liberal, and got a Conservative.
Harper appointed an unelected official (Michael Fortier) to the Senate (which he was supposed to be abolishing), and placed the man in charge of a good section of the public purse. Since he's unelected, he's not accountable.
Now they're talking about getting rid of Ottawa's childcare program, possibly only leaving it in place in Quebec. Or not. Most of this stuff is happening behind closed doors, so it's hard to tell.
And this is only the first week. Expect more in week 2.
In that time, Harper has put a pro-war/pro-missile-defence lobbyist in as our Defence Minister. And we haveMike Harris's finance minister (a man who once hid a multi-billion dollar deficit) in charge of the treasury. He put a raving fundamentalist (and a man guilty of violating election-financing laws) in charge of Justice.
Harris' health minister is also in charge of Health, which means he'll try and get a private system in. Meanwhile Harper also turned public safety over to Stockwell Day, who'll probably use his powers to keep us from being stepped on by dinosaurs, or something.
Our new environment minister doesn't care about Kyoto. Our Minister of Heritage doesn't care about Canadian content. Our Minister of Transport has spent his life fighting the spread of subways and buses. Our new foreign affairs minister is most famous for having reneged on a contract.
And I learned today the secretary to the Minister Responsible for the Francophonie (like the Commonwealth for French-speaking nations) doesn't speak French himself.
Our new prime minister broke all his campaign promises about credibility in the first 24 hours, bribing a guy (David Emerson) to come over right after the election. Emerson's voters chose a Liberal, and got a Conservative.
Harper appointed an unelected official (Michael Fortier) to the Senate (which he was supposed to be abolishing), and placed the man in charge of a good section of the public purse. Since he's unelected, he's not accountable.
Now they're talking about getting rid of Ottawa's childcare program, possibly only leaving it in place in Quebec. Or not. Most of this stuff is happening behind closed doors, so it's hard to tell.
And this is only the first week. Expect more in week 2.
