Andrew Coyne: Bloated, glossy $212,000 federal budget cover a fitting symbol of modern government
by Andrew Coyne It isn’t the document that’s the problem. It’s the underlying attitude: that every twitch of government should be considered as an opportunity to manipulate the public Like many of you I read that Blacklocks Reporter scoop on the $212,000 the Liberals paid an advertising agency to produce a cover and related materials for last spring’s federal budget with an appreciative shiver of disdain, pausing at various points to gag pleasurably on the details: the $89,500 for models hired to depict middle class Canadians; the weighty email conversations between officials at Finance and the agency over whether...
by Andrew Coyne It isn’t the document that’s the problem. It’s the underlying attitude: that every twitch of government should be considered as an opportunity to manipulate the public Like many of you I read that Blacklocks Reporter scoop...
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