Federal Budget - Civil Service Cuts

Harper cutting the civil service? This is nonsense. I have long experience both provincially and federally with civil service and elected officials.

What politicians do is get rid of civil servants hired by the previous government - in this case Liberals - and hire their own, usually expanding the civil service not reducing it.

Harper claims he is reducing the civil service by 19,200, but he's hired over 40,000 since taking office. The larger areas of growth have been departments that reflect his ideological agenda: National Defence(nearly 5,000 more employees), Correctional Services(more than 3,000 new workers) , and Canada Border Services Agency(close to 2,600 more employees). - so its military, prisons, and security paranoia.

Harper says one thing - reducing government to save money - but the reality is very different.

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Stephen Harper and Vic Toews: Conservative Priorities

Safe: Child's play.


Dangerous, may warrant police raids.

Conservative priorities are out of whack with reality: according to them, there's money for fighter jets and prisons we don't need, but cutting valuable staff from Environment Canada is okay... because there is not enough money? I guess Harper was worried that he and his tarsands buddies would be roundly disproven on their denial of climate change.

More recently, Harper has abolished the long gun registry - government does not need to know how many guns you own - but (along with his friend Vic Toews) wants to pass legislation to allow government to snoop on everything we do on the internet.

So... by CON-logic it's invasive if it's to do with guns... but it's okay for government to know - and keep track of - everything we do on the internet. I guess in Harperland, surfing on the internet is more dangerous than guns... because guns don't kill people, e-mails do?

This is a government out of touch with reality.

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Stephen Harper: Bye bye

"Harper Government" falls. 'No confidence' vote by the opposition passes. About time to say bye bye to Harper.

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