Canada's petty conservatives: All refs to 'Government of Canada' must now be 'Harper Government'

[Newsjock]

Source: Canadian Press

It's official: Stephen Harper rules.

And lest anyone forgets, a directive went out to public servants late last year that “Government of Canada” in federal communications should be replaced by the words “Harper Government.”

Public servants from four different line departments told The Canadian Press the instruction came from “the centre” – meaning the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council Office that serves the Prime Minister.

... “It is one thing for journalists or even the public to use the more partisan ‘Harper government,’ but it is another thing for the state to equate the Government of Canada with the leader of the governing party,” said Jonathon Rose, a specialist in political communications at Queen's University.

... The Harper-centric messaging prompted Mr. Rose to recall French King Louis XIV and his 17th century divine right of kings: “L'Etat, c'est moi,” quipped the political scientist. “The state is me.”

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-re-brand-government-in-stephen-harpers-name/article1929175/

[TxVietVet]

1. Hey, Canadians, give that conservanazi Harper

a swift kick in the ass. :kick:
It's the "Canadian Government".

I hear Harper is as dumb as gwbu$h. Thinks asphalt is a rectal disease. :rofl:

[provis99]

2. as rotten as Bush, but more boring.

Also has less charisma than Bush. What a piece of work he is.

[Overseas]

3. Disgusting. Hope they resist. //nt

[chollybocker]

4. The Emporer has no clothes.

So he hides behind the thick screen of the PMO.