Editor, The Times:
Don’t you just marvel at the latest tactics of the Harper gang to demonize Canada’s civil servants? According to the Conservatives, civil servants are overpaid and take too much sick time.
Talk about embellishment, salaries and benefits together using the top end of the pay scale rather than the average salaries to present a distorted view of reality. The sick time issue has been similarly distorted to create the impression that all civil servants take maximum advantage of this benefit. Oh! Those cleaver Harper backroom boys know how easy it is to vilify the civil service as a drain on the Canadian economy.
So, is there a purpose to this conservative spin doctoring? Of course there is! Private is good, public is bad. Therefore we should privatize the civil service and our services would be so much cheaper. A civil service that is privately run and non-union is a conservative dream.
Just think with the money saving from a private service system. There would be more money to subsidize big oil, mining and we could better advertise to the world that Canadian resources are for sale at bargain basement prices and, by the way, let’s sell off Canada to a foreign government – as in the sale of Nexon to the Chinese state owned company. Where is the consistency in that?
Come on Canada, wake up and smell the Conservative rat while there is still some assets in Canadian hands. When will we realize that the Harper conservatives were elected by a minority of Canadians but they really represent international big business rather than the people who elected them.
Wes Morden
Blackpool, B.C.
