PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY NO LONGER REQUIRED

Geoffrey Stevens has written the following Opinion piece in today's Waterloo Region Record "Political sideshows set to begin". He chronicles three issues, two of them provincial and one Federal. The Federal ones are in regards to the ongoing F-35 fighter aircraft aerial attack upon the Conservatives credibility as well as the credibilty of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

In the good old days politicians at least had enough respect for the Canadian electorate to lie to us with a modicum of plausibility to their lies. Not anymore apparently. If we are to believe Peter Mckay and the Tories, all the experts knew their projected fighter jet costs were off by Billions of dollars but honest injun the Defense Department and federal politicians didn't. Sorry me and millions of Canadians aren't buying that crap. Secondly the Conservatives terrifed many Canadian left leaners with their tough on crime pronouncements and legislative threats. We were all told that build them and they will come. Prisons that is. Sure our crime statistics are at an all time low and falling but trust us Conservatives we are going to build more prisons to house our potentially burgeonibg criminal population. A real skeptic might even assail the Tories (& Liberals) for their decades old immigration policies which could be construed as the potential source for all these wannabe criminals that Vic Toews sees around every corner.

Now the federal election is long gone and this month Vic Toews announces that the government are going to close three federal prisons (including Kingston) and hence save $120 million a year. Oh and by the way they aren't planning on releasing Bernardo and others, they are going to transfer these 900 prisoners to other federal institutions. Not new ones. Not provincial ones but federal jails that apparently have room for these 900 prisoners. Turns out there is no shortage of space and there has been no influx of new prisoners yet. To date the Conservative government hasn't come up with any kind of plausible explanation whatsoever. Maybe they are actually planning on telling us the truth. It was all an election ploy. Wouldn't the truth be a real change?