Ding dong the witch is dead -- for now!
Sunday, October 1. 2006 Canadians hoodwinked by pricey charade
We of what are sometimes called "the radical far right" -- meaning we still think of a marriage as consisting of a male husband and a female wife -- heard the heartening news last week the Harper government plans to abolish the Court Challenges Program, the notorious (to us, anyway) CCP.
We also heard the Tories are going to de-fund the Status Of Women agency -- "to put down the SOW, " so to speak -- and to wipe out the Law Commission of Canada as well.
These three bureaucratic misanthropes are the federal agencies most responsible for the social travesty that has been worked on this country during the last 24 years.
That they'll stay dead is, of course, by no means certain.
If by some catastrophic set of circumstances the Liberals were returned to power in the general election expected early next year, then all three would no doubt be back.
The CCP, for example, has been killed before.
The Mulroney government got rid of it, but when the Liberals returned under Jean Chretien, back it came with them.
It was, in fact, more iniquitous than ever, because Chretien set it up as a private non-profit company, no longer a straight government agency.
Though still fully funded by government, it was exempted from the provisions of the Access to Information Act.
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