Has Canada entered a ‘Bush-like vortex’?
By: David Eaves
Mr. Colvin’s allegations suggest that the government has entered a Bush-like vortex where facts are irrelevant – be it on torture, Canadians abroad or on climate change. We have a government who’s view is: “If we don’t know it, it doesn’t exist.” Moreover, it is prepared to attack the bureaucracy if it isn’t prepared to shape the truth or willing to keep its political masters in the dark in the appropriate ways.
When the most senior ranks of the public service – those who pride themselves on their ability to speak truth to power and whose job it is to protect junior ranks from political interference – feel pressured to do the very opposite, it should send a chill down every Canadians spine. Worse still, we may never know the full truth of what contrary evidence was presented to politicians since, when confronted with countering facts, today’s public servants feel increasing pressure to “put down their pen” and stop writing…[more]
