Saving face

One reason the Harper government is trying to put their positive spin is that a number of people are challenging the government for their involvement with the US war machine Lockheed Martin being part of the Canadian Census and within one court case against one Sandra Findley (1) it became quite clear that the long form never was compulsory, even though Census staff acted as if it was and coerced, threatened even intimidated citizens with prosecutions if they refused to fill it out.

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Now in a bid to save face, while still continuing their relationship with Lockheed Martin (now they claim they only bought their software), the Harper government trying to draw attention away from the people's protest (remember the more recent G-20 diversions to legitimate protests) is trying to quell some of the deep and fundamental protest to their contractually being in bed with Lockheed Martin. Eduard Hiebert ST Francois Xavier, MB

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