Another story that SHOULD have legs… and would but for the fact that we have a pathologically liberal-left agenda-driven media which is but a division of the liberal-left political machine in Canada, and which will therefore all but ignore it if they can rather than investigate it further as they should, and would, if it were about Conservatives:
I first read about this on Saturday in our little suburban borough’s local newspaper, The Delta Optimist (a Canwest paper), which, it seems to me, framed it as something of a sinister ploy among federal bureaucrats who have literally been caught acting out their distaste for Conservative Prime Minister Harper and attempting to drive their agenda at taxpayer expense.
In light of last week’s stories (and my blog entries) of the arrested anti-Harper radical anarchist (albeit rather ironically, to me anyway, a government bureaucrat —which the liberal media doesn’t seem to find ironic at all!) who held a “news” conference to rail against his former employer, the Harper Conservative government, with his shrill left-wing anarchist agenda, perhaps it’s not so hard to believe that this is in fact a rather sinister ploy.
And perhaps this is increasing proof of what I’ve said so often: that after years of liberal-left governments in Canada, the bureaucracy and every single facet of Canadian government or quasi government life in Canada (which now represents nearly all of Canadian life, sadly) is stacked from top to bottom with raving anti-conservative liberal-leftists. The deck is politically stacked. The game is fixed. Government employees who are politically left and anti-Conservative work against the government, and yet work “for” the government. I figure we’re likely to see more and more of this as time goes on.
The Delta Optimist story includes these inflammatory bits:
Fishing poll backfired on bureaucrats: Cummins
By Maureen Gulyas
A buried federal poll shows the majority of British Columbians disagree with a separate commercial fishery for natives.
Out of 1,000 English respondents, 76 per cent said commercial fishermen, whether they are First Nations or not, “should be subject to the same rules and should be treated equally by the law.”
The Privy Council, the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans commissioned Pollara to conduct the poll last July. The timing was important.
It was commissioned just 11 days after Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrote to a Calgary newspaper stating he opposed a racially divided fishery in B.C. Within a week, the bureaucrats managed to raise $22,600 to pay for the poll, and came up with several questions about the controversial native commercial fishery on the West Coast.
Delta-Richmond East MP John Cummins said bureaucrats were striving to get a particular answer to prove to the prime minister he was out of touch with the Canadian public. The results show those efforts backfired, the longtime MP said.
“They intended to use that to basically bring the prime minister to heel,” Cummins said.
Two of the poll questions asked respondents directly if they recalled reading or hearing about Harper’s comments on July 7.
Cummins was made aware of the poll by West Coast fishermen who received it by accident in an Access to Information request.
Phil Eidsvik, executive director of the B.C. Fisheries Survival Coalition, obtained the poll as well as a flurry of insider e-mails. Those e-mails show while the bureaucrats came up with the questions, they asked the polling company to review them. Pollara told the civil servants their questions were “leading,” showed “bias” and were “double-barreled.”
The questions were adjusted, but Cummins said they were still biased in favour of the native commercial fishing agenda.
“In spite of asking these leading questions, the public saw through it and said, ‘We don’t agree,’ so the bureaucrats buried the poll. I’m sure that poll was never shown to the PM,” Cummins said. […]
The National Post (also a Canwest paper), however, softens that somewhat:
Bulk of B.C. opposes special aboriginal commercial fishing rights
Cummins is particularly peeved because he alleges the pollster’s questions were “distorted” to create encouraging responses in favour of native commercial fishing rights.
“The prime minister made a very clear statement about separate native commercial fisheries and I think it was an unequivocal statement,” said Cummins.
“And immediately after that statement (bureaucrats in three departments) decided they would conduct a poll in an attempt to demonstrate that he was out of step with the public in British Columbia.
“And even though they manipulated the questions, or distorted the questions and distorted reality in the preambles to the question, the public in British Columbia came out very clearly and stated that they didn’t view separate native commercial fisheries very favourably.”
Harper and Cummins are, by the way, dead right on this issue.
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