Ta-Mah!

I must have been gravely misinformed all those years that I thought the best way for a government to be accountable is to have its records opened to the citizens. So, when Stephen Harper came up with the Federal Accountability Act, I thought, good, a more accessible and open government. Little did I know how foolish I ended up feeling. Instead of opening the government's records and make them easier to access, the 'Accountability Act' will make them far harder to get to. So, the 'Accountability Act' is not pro-accountability, like health care, but anti-accountability, like crime bills. Oh, yeah, Harper is far more fond of crime bills than health care. I should have known. Treasury Board Chairman John Baird called Information Commissioner John Reid's criticism of the Act “85% of these concerns are tomato, tomahto.” They must be two very different kinds of Solanaceae. If Mr. Baird like tomato/tomahto so much, may I suggest we all go into our cold storage to find a couple buckets of very soft tomatoes and simply land them on his head. That is the very least that we can do in respond to being shut out by our own government.