It used to be "Canada's New Government." Now the Conservatives are re-branding the government, and tactfully removing themselves from the brand. They're also trying to prove that they saw the recession coming long, long ago. And they're meeting the challenge of the recession by dropping that wasteful punctuation mark, the apostrophe.
Today the Conservatives launched a new website, Canada's Economic Action Plan, to show the country that everything is under control.
On one key page, the term "the Harper Government" appears seven times.
The page tells us that Harper saw the recession coming in 2007, and brought in tax cuts to strengthen us against it.
We now have punctuation cuts as well. On that one page, we have "the Harper governments decision" plus six uses of Canada as a possessive minus apostrophes:
Canadas economy
Canadas business conditions
Canadas debt-to-GDP ratio
Canadas financial system
Canadas regulatory environment
Canadas real-estate sector
Other pages on the site (and the site title itself) do use apostrophes, indicating that the Harper Government is keeping its options open. Or cutting costs by firing the Harper Government web editor.
Crawford Kilian is a contributing editor of The Tyee.
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Grumpy
2 years ago
All BS...............
............the lot of them in Ottawa. The conservatives are collapsing into that political black hole that was always reserved for them and are trying to re-brand their way out.
PeteL
2 years ago
FZ
The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.
snert
2 years ago
Just how many
Canadas are there?