Why do we keep getting off track and diverted?
I'm interested in hearing how people defend a party that ran on a platform of "ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT" getting a D in "ACCOUNTABILITY" from an independent watchdog?
Friends of the Conservative party are getting the plum jobs in Ottawa. Even though getting rid of patronage appointments was in their 54 part plan to clean up Ottawa. Big business lobbyists are still greasing the palms of the MPs even though the Conservatives promised to restrict 3rd party influence on politics. And the promise to protect whistleblowers? If you find that an MP is doing something unethical and you go to the media, then the whistleblowers protection does NOT apply. Our whistleblowers legislation is a piece of crap and needs to be re-written.
If anything, the Conservatives came in with a lot of good ideas and I can see why Democracy Watch put them #1 in terms of having the best ideas for an accountable government. But now that they are in power and getting the big $$$$$$$ from the lobbyists, the morals and ethics get thrown out the door.
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