{"id":2190,"date":"2009-03-11T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2009-03-11T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:56:00","slug":"tale-of-the-tape-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"Tale of the Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other interesting element from Harper’s speech<\/a>, which has been mostly overlooked by commentators to date, was his declaration of war against red tape<\/strong><\/span>. Take a look:<\/p>\n

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This report will emphasize the extent to which we are expediting approval processes – cutting so-called \u201cred tape<\/span><\/strong>\u201d – to ensure that stimulus spending, spending that is temporary and targeted hits our economy in a timely manner.<\/p>\n

Let me just emphasize this:<\/p>\n

We are cutting enormous amounts of red tape<\/span><\/strong> and we are doing it quickly.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, as I mentioned at the outset, in the 42 days since our action plan was
presented, we have taken extraordinary steps to cut red tape<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

We are, as I\u2019ve<\/span> said, cutting bureaucratic red tape<\/span><\/strong>. And we need Parliament to cut its red tape<\/span><\/strong> too.<\/p>\n

We cannot have the opposition in Parliament replacing bureaucratic red tape<\/span><\/strong> with political red tape<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This, in addition to six mentions of “bureaucratie<\/span><\/em>” en francais<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Obviously, this is a bit of posturing on Harper’s part around the 3 billion dollar “slush fund” battle <\/a>with Ignatieff<\/span>. But, I also suspect that Harper’s zeal for cutting red tape<\/strong><\/span> has a bit to do with appeasing fiscal Conservatives who are upset at his free spending budget.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see Harper and Flaherty<\/span> coming back to this theme on several occasions in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other interesting element from Harper’s speech, which has been mostly overlooked by commentators to date, was his declaration of war against red tape. Take a look: This report will emphasize the extent to which we are expediting approval processes – cutting so-called \u201cred tape\u201d – to ensure that stimulus spending, spending that is temporary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}