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...talk to the press more space to do so and would provide a better backdrop--the entrance to the House of Commons--for prime ministerial press conferences. "As long as Canadians can hear from their government, it shouldn't matter what floor they hear it from," says Sandra Buckler, the PM's new communications director...
...There's little evidence so far that the public shares the concerns of the press. "I don't think the average Canadian cares as long as they know their government is being well run," Buckler told a reporter. But Alasdair Roberts, a Syracuse University public-policy professor, asks, "How can the average Canadian make a judgment about whether their government is being well run if they don't have access to the information...
...they are more transparent than their recent predecessors, noting that Harper has been holding more press conferences than either Jean Chr?tien or Paul Martin did. Harper "gives deep media interviews with much deeper content than Canadians have seen or heard from previous Prime Ministers over the last 12 years," Buckler says. And government ministers aren't complaining about being muzzled. "We've all been told to be prudent, because when you're in government your words carry different weight than in opposition," says Agricultural Minister Chuck Strahl, a 12-year M.P. "We've all been given the wise advice...
...responded dismissively, "I will be available when I have something to announce." Other members of the government have similarly been less than media savvy. When Ethics Commissioner Bernard Shapiro announced he was investigating the defection of Liberal David Emerson directly into the Conservative Cabinet after the federal election, Buckler said the Prime Minister would be "loath to cooperate...
...ideas in these essays have not translated into a meaningful guiding philosophy for the review or that students are scarcely aware they exist. Instead, we are left with a set of flaccid administrative reforms rather than innovative ideas that indicate, as Professor Julie Buckler writes, “the next step in the evolution of our own thinking, and not as a break from past practices.” What’s worse, most students don’t know these ideas even exist, or understand how students relate to them...