Accountability Act, and Government Appointments

According to CBC this morning (sorry, the story link isn't up yet), the Conservatives made 118 to 120 appointments just before their vaunted Accountability Act received Royal Assent.

[Update]Here's the news article

Meanwhile, the government appointed 118 people to various government jobs in December alone.

But the prime minister continues to emphasize the importance of the act.

"Canada now has a cleaner, more accountable government, thanks to the passage of the toughest anticorruption measures in Canadian history, the Federal Accountabilty Act," he said at an event on Thursday in Mississauga, Ont.

Harper's full of his own baloney - if this act really mean anything to him, he would have made a show of actually implementing the process publicly instead of making a pile of "under the covers" appointments.

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A few of those appointments made it out into the media, but the vast majority did not. Now, I'm not going to question the quality of the appointees - I frankly know nothing about them since our oh-so-accountable government chose to make the appointments WITHOUT ANY VISIBILITY.

I urge you to think about this carefully. The party in power ran on a platform of bringing Canadians "open, honest and accountable government" (God knows we all heard that meme enough times last winter!), and then they turn around and do as much as they can "under the radar". It strikes me as the deepest kind of hypocrisy, and makes Harper look completely insincere.