Harper, wife on different pages
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:20 am
I wonder if she had a "few words" for him?
Yet this is another disgraceful cut by the Harperites.
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What a two face that John Baird is. He should of been tarred and feathered.Literacy — it's all about reading, writing and getting your story straight.
Or so it seemed this week in Ottawa.
On Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government axed $17.7 million from the human resources department's Adult Learning and Literacy Skills Program as part of a wave of spending cuts.
Yesterday, Harper's wife Laureen was on the streets of Ottawa, promoting literacy.
Clad in a yellow T-shirt and handing out newspapers in the drizzle as part of a CanWest media company promotion of child literacy, it seemed that perhaps Laureen Harper hadn't seen the memo about the literacy cuts earlier in the week.
Ditto for Harper's chief of staff, Ian Brodie, who coughed up a $20 literacy donation when he came across his boss's wife on the street in front of the Parliament buildings.
Treasury Board President John Baird, who announced the cuts on Monday, was also part of the CanWest street campaign.
Yet this is another disgraceful cut by the Harperites.
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