This is a different video take on the patronage king, Stephen Harper. It’s been promoted elsewhere on other blogs, but it still amused me enough that I thought I’d add it here as well.
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All hail the patronage king!Tags: Canadian Senate, political patronage, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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During June and July 1984, outgoing PM Pierre Trudeau and incoming PM John Turner appointed at least 225 people, the vast majority of whom were said to be Liberal Party supporters, to senior level government positions as senators, judges, ambassadors, commission members, crown corporation executives and civil servants. Some of these appointments created a great deal of public criticism as an abuse of public office, and at least one member of Trudeau’s Cabinet publicly criticized Trudeau for ignoring competence in some of the appointments.
I think Harper may have even come close to owning the crown!!