Paving the way for Tories – feedback (cont.)

[caption id="attachment_1005" align="alignright" width="154" caption="Departing DM Louis Ranger"][/caption] Our post on the skewing of paving projects under the federal Infrastructure Stimulus Plan elicited the following e-mail from someone who claims to be (and sounds very much like) a senior official inside Transport Canada: I wondered how long it would take for the media to discover that the infrastructure stimulus spending has everything to with patronage, and nothing to do with what is good for the nation. [Deputy Minister Louis] Ranger [whose retirement was announced yesterday] was pushed out of the job and told, "We don't want your advice" regarding the spending projects. ...