The abuse of the taxpayer by the Harper regime is shameless and relentless. That's the conclusion drawn by The Star's Tim Harper today, and it is abuse that is amply demonstrated in today's Globe.
First to Tim Harper:
The Conservatives have provided a national background Muzak of sloganeering and propaganda that aims to lull Canadians into a false sense that everything will be okay if you just vote for them.The contempt for Canadians is egregious:
They’re using your money to buy your vote.
... this government has spent $750 million blanketing you in Tory blue.How little the Harper regime regards the taxpayer is made even more graphic by a video that government toadie Pierre Poilievre produced at taxpayer expense:
It has advertised programs before they existed. It has appropriated “Strong. Proud. Free” as an advertising slogan, but its genesis is considered a state secret and cannot be revealed for 20 years because Conservatives have deemed the matter one of cabinet confidence.
It is spending $13.5 million to advertise its budget — not to inform, but to promote.
It uses your money for its own partisan videos, endangering Canadian soldiers in the process of burnishing the Stephen Harper image.
David McGuinty says there are 9,800 Economic Action Plan billboards in this country, costing $29 million.
“At its core, this kind of advertising undermines the rules of fair play in our democratic system,’’ he says.
“Canadians believe the government thinks they’re stupid.’’
Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre commissioned a team of public servants for overtime work on a Sunday to film him glad-handing constituents in promotion of the Conservative government’s benefits for families.I have to warn you that the following video, made at a children’s clothing consignment event at a local hockey arena in Poilievre's riding, should only be watched by those who are strongly constituted:
The ensuing taxpayer-funded video – and other recent ones like it – are prompting concern that the Conservatives have taken a new step in the use of public funds to produce “vanity videos.”
And if that's not enough, I offer you a second video, with the same strong viewer advisory:
I can only hope that instead of being impressed by the 'largesse' of the Harper regime, people will far and wide discern its subtext, that we are regarded by our government as suckers easily manipulated by the very propaganda we are footing the bill for.
UPDATE: Not only is this government contemptuous of us, it is truculently unapologetic about its disdain. Click here to see the ugly truth.
Lorne, it is indeed a sad situation. I hope public will see through Harper and his false propaganda and go for a change in 2015. It is worrisome that Harper has succeeded for 8 years in misleading public.
ReplyDeleteThere ae so many reports of so many ways the Harper regime has abused our trust, LD, that we have to hope the message is sinking in. Of course, that assumes that people read and watch the news....
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