Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Friday, May 18, 2012

The Tories Are Losing Public Trust

Now that David Macdonald of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has put the figures straight on the federal public service cuts — 29,600 rather than the announced 19,200 — what does this say about the federal Tories?

The trust factor among Canadians for the federal Conservatives has to be plummeting. This is the kind of figure-fudging that got the Liberals in trouble with things like Adscam. The F-35 numbers are a guess, the Libya action cost is too low, we need to change the Old Age Security limit when it doesn’t need changing, the free flow of information is tightened, and then Robocalls. I could go on.

When are the Tories going to learn that they are elected in part on policy and in part on trust? Even good Conservatives are worried about this government.

Original Article
Source: ottawa citizen
Author: Ken Gray
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