Policy should be trade marked, if not copyrighted

So, the Prime Minister announced a billion in funding for the City of Toronto. They are going to build a new subway stop and improve the commuting system. Hooray. Not Surprisingly, this is almost identical to the money found in (what was then) C-48 and C-66 from the 38th Parliament (implementation acts for the fall 2005 mini-budget). John Godfrey (L - Don't let the door hit you...), the previous Minister for Infrastructure and Cities, made the EXACT same announcement in the fall of 2005. Almost word for freakin' word.

Canada's new government certainly looks an awful like Canada's old one.

Just out of curiosity, doesn't this just cancel out the two billion in funding that the then President of the Treasury Board fucked the city of Ottawa out of for its light rail system? I suppose there should be gridlock on Bronson that matches that which occurs in the House of Commons.

The Prime Minister also announced support for the East/West transmission grid. Guess what- this is a re-announcement of a program that started development in 2001.

When these monkeys come up with an original idea, can someone let me know?

Or maybe the country should just realize that the public service doesn't have any new ideas either. They just keep repackaging old ones. If the private sector worked this way, I would still be using a Vic-20.

The point, of course, is that Stephen Harper was absolutely correct on January 20th, 2006 when he said that electing the Conservatives would not create a "sea-change" in Ottawa because all the bureaucrats and judges would still be "liberal appointees." Not exactly how the public service works, but it certainly says alot regarding how much of a difference the people sitting to the right of the speaker make, doesn't it? And it shows how well Harper understands how Ottawa really works.