Democracy is now out of order in Harper's Canada

Harper toady House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer  this past week ruled opposition questions about robocon out of order, saying that all questions "have to touch on the administrative responsibilities of government not political financing,". WTF, excuse me but how a government and in fact any political party behaves before, during or after a general election does impact on the administrative responsibilities of government. Accepting Scheer's rulings on this matter would be tantamount to saying that parliament is no place to explore whether or not a party, let alone the governing one cheated during an election.

Coupled with his recent rulings that the Conservative campaign of lies against Irwin Cotler in his riding were not a breach of Cotler's parliamentary privilege despite the Cons admitting guilt while finding Vic Toews' privilege was violated by Anonymous even though they have no standing in parliament shows Sheer to be wholly unfit for the supposedly nonpartisan role of Speaker.

I would call for his ouster if I thought for a moment that the Conservatives would even entertain such a call but since they are quite likely very pleased with the job Scheer is doing for the party I know that would be a waste of time.

What to do when the Minister is a moron?

Well if one works for a Conservative cabinet minister you attempt to hide the evidence that's what. As Jorge Barrera over at APTN National News tells us that is precisely what officials at Aboriginal Affairs planned to do in response to one of John Duncan's idiotic utterances re Residential Schools last year.

The internal government documents also show a communications manager wanted to delete those emails, which discussed the department’s plan on dealing with fallout from controversial comments Minister John Duncan made about Indian residential schools.

Hmm It seems our government has a fetish for destroying and sometimes altering documents and data which it finds inconvenient. There outta be a law..oh wait there is one ,well kinda one anyways

 “(The department’s) directive on electronic mail management requires employees to document decisions and decision making processes,” said the spokesperson in an emailed statement. “(The department) recommends saving business records to meet record keeping requirements and…deleting personal and transitory messages from the account as quickly as possible.”

h/t Greg at Accidental Deliberations