Credible Deniability

Isn't that just like the federal government? Outwardly attesting to its dedication to family values, and covertly allowing the infiltration of degraded sexual activities to sully Canada's social mores. You just cannot tell who you can trust any more in this world. Where did the federal government lose its ethical values? It is to grieve hopelessly. We are so disappointed.

We know these things have been happening because we have it straight from the indignantly accusatory mouth of Ontario's Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities. He has released for public scrutiny a letter he sent off to federal Human Resources Minister Diane Finley. He is appalled and disgusted and figures we should be, too.

"I do not believe provincial government employees should counsel clients to train for a job as an escort or table dancer, nor do I see it as the government's role to assist in recruiting staff for strip clubs and escort services", he puffed. Please accept this as official notification that Ontario will not comply with any directive of this nature."

How utterly disgraceful. What can the feds be thinking? This is entirely un-Canadian, to impress upon the provincial governments and territories that they have an obligation under federal direction to direct job-seekers to the sex industry. Furthermore, to train them as strippers, lap dancers, and who-knows-what-else?

Mind, when all else fails, and the country has a growing deficit of employment opportunities, perhaps we could see our way clear...? No? Yes, of course, perfectly correct.

It would appear that the document in question that was received by all provincial governments delineating a policy review of job-bank websites by Human Resources and Skills Development in Ottawa, has caused the hackles to rise in the government of Dalton McGuinty.

When it comes to the ballot box, he's hoping Ontarians will forget the millions of wasted tax funding for special projects that never quite came off.

Nor should they recall their umbrage over rising energy costs related to 'green energy' initiatives that is putting a whole lot of in the bank accounts of green-energy-entrepreneurs.
Of foreign companies that will bring in windmill technology in spades just as wind energy is being downgraded as an alternate source of energy by the acknowledgement that it is intrusive, expensive and unreliable.

Oh, how surprising. The federal government is denying any knowledge at the executive level of any such bulletin. Claiming that all job postings must "continue to reflect the social values and ethical practices shared by the Federal Government, its provincial and territorial partners, as well as Canadian society as a whole." Outlining the inclusion of exotic dancers, erotic dancers, nude dancers, escorts and chatline agents.

"I'll be very frank here, if a directive of this nature is here, we will not be posting jobs for strippers and escorts. We don't feel it's an appropriate use of taxpayers' money. The federal government has the final say, but if they don't like it, they can sue me." Thus said Ontario's Minister of Training. What a good man, what rectitude, what a sense of universal morality. Remember the name and vote for him.

Meanwhile, what does the federal government respond with? "[The draft note] has not been seen by the Minister's office, nor would it ever have been a policy under consideration by our government." One would think. Right?

The memo, insisted Ryan Sparrow of Ms. Finley's department, was prepared by low-level bureaucrats, never solicited, let alone received the permission of the director general of the department, nor the Minister and could never be thought of as legitimate government policy. So there. And go soak your head.

"Obviously, we disagree with the memo. It has no legitimacy whatever." Ryan Sparrow

Quite as obviously, some bored civil servant with a rakish sense of humour thought he'd break up the intolerable ennui suffered by those whose employment entails too much predictable routine that has been suitably remunerated.