Trust and Secretive Government

I don't make any bones about it - I do not trust the current CPoC government in Ottawa. Every sign I have seen suggests to me that they are playing a very dishonest game of trying to implement their agenda through the back door whenever possible.

It seems like every second day, some evil little turd lands in the news to further reinforce my impressions of this government. Today, the veil of secrecy in the Department of Defense is that much denser than it was a few short months ago. From a government that has repeatedly - and clumsily - attempted to deceive Canadians about its intentions already, this is another clue to the disjoin between their "public face" and reality.

You may argue that "others do that all the time", and I won't necessarily disagree. I will point out that few governments I can think of have become so blatantly secretive as quickly Harper's has. It is very hard to find anything to trust in a government that has been caught out in so many deceptions so quickly. When the knee-jerk response is to seal the communications even tighter, the citizens of Canada are obliged to start asking "Just what else are you trying to hide.

When government ministers won't answer questions about government policy and intent, and then they turn around and implement precisely the policy they tried not to admit to (as has been done with the billion dollars spending cuts, and redefinition of Status of Women's objectives), this smacks of a dishonesty both in terms of policy and intent.