Now They Want To Hear From Average Canadians…Or Hire Actors?

Yes, it would appear that Tony Clement and the Harpercons now believe it to be convenient to hear from “average” Canadians about the census, or so they say.

“I think it’s appropriate to have individual Canadians appear,” said Edmonton-area Conservative MP Mike Lake, the parliamentary secretary to Industry Minister Tony Clement. “They’re the ones that are getting asked the questions and being forced under threat of fines and jail time to answer them, so absolutely it’s appropriate for individual Canadians to appear before committee.”

Funny, I was under the impression that Master Stevie felt that all Canadians; individual or in groups were “annoying”. Now, it seems they need to postpone the the committee hearings regarding the census so they can find individual Canadians.  Since those who are adament about maintaining the long form census as is are an “irritant” to Master Steve, he will have to find some less “annoying”: less irritating Canadians who sympathize with their cause. What happened? Is Ezra Levant on vacation? Nobody available from the Canadian Tax Payers’ Federation or The Fraser Institute?  It takes time to hire an actor and get them to rehearse the script?  If that’s the case, perhaps they’re better off hiring someone with no speaking role, as that is usually how Master Steve prefers his puppets.  Better yet, perhaps they can ask Jane Taber if they can borrow one of her super anonymous sources to find these actors to play not-so-annoying ”average” Canadian “irritants”.  Another thing about prepping witnesses Steve should take into consideration,  he may well have to start filling his new super prison with Tony Clement, Mike Lake and the other anti-Census used car sales men types and their “witnesses”; last I checked, witness tampering and suborning perjury were against the law.

More over at  Dave, Scott and Pogge ‘s