Vancouver Secrets

Harper Could Use Prorogue To Save Canada Billions

With a Parliament prorogue until after the Olympics, I think he should have taken a few more steps to save us some serious money:

- Use the period to layoff all MPs and make them apply for  (un)eployment insurance. This would be an eye opener for them. maybe a few would run off and get real jobs.

- Layoff all Parliament workers and support staff – again a few would get real jobs and we’d breath new life into the place.

- Shut down all government departments that are not deemed essential. This would give us a taste of life without government for two months and Canadians would realize that we don’t need most of what they provide.

Which of these would be missed:

Assisted Human Reproduction Canada
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Atlantic Pilotage Authority
Currency Museum
Blue Water Bridge Canada
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Canada Emission Reduction Incentives Agency
Canada School of Public Service
Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal
Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Dairy Commission
Canadian Firearms Program
Canadian Grain Commission
Canadian Heritage
1. Aboriginal Affairs Branch
2. Canadian Conservation Institute
3. Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board
4. Canadian Heritage Information Network
5. Ceremonial and Canadian Symbols Promotion
6. Exchanges Canada
7. International Affairs Branch
8. Official Languages
9. Sport Canada
10. Values and Ethics
11. Virtual Museum of Canada

Canadian Human Rights Commission
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat
Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency
Canadian Polar Commission
Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Cape Breton Development Corporation
Multiculturalism
Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation
Canadian Ice Service
Clean Air On-line – Canada’s Clean Air Act
Climate Change
First Nations Statistical Institute
Great Lakes Pilotage Authority Canada
Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics
Laurentian Pilotage Authority
National Battlefields Commission
National Energy Board
National Farm Products Council
National Film Board of Canada
Networks of Centres of Excellence
Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages
Pacific Pilotage Authority Canada
Public Service Staffing Tribunal
Registry of the Specific Claims Tribunal of Canada
Species at Risk Public Registry
Western Economic Diversification Canada

Shutter them and 2010 deficit is solved.

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