This government

takes a completely adversarial stance. To the citizenry, certainly: look at how Kelly Lamrock is deliberately stirring up the old language debates. You don’t think so? Just take a look at the comments sections of almost any online article on French immersion: all the French-bashing yahoos are feeling safe enough to come out of the woodwork. Certainly this government are adversarial to anyone with any real expertise, no doubt in an effort to protect their own tame “experts” — Croll, Lee, and Miner and L’Écuyer on post-secondary education — who need all the help they can get. And they are adversarial to those with the most investment in the things they so blithely want to change: teachers are gagged and, we have heard, have begun to get transfers or pink slips; parents are ignored; and the Minster is quoted in the national newspaper as saying that “My job isn’t to make people of doctorates feel good.” (File that under “just as well.”)

With such a long and comprehensive list of opponents, you have to wonder who they think they are doing it for. That elusive creature, the “taxpayer”? Well, we’ve got news for them: we are the taxpayers.