Canada's Descent Into 1984

It takes a childish kind of vengeful pouting for a government to eliminate words from their statements in an attempt to differentiate themselves from the previous administration:

A memo from deep within the bureaucracy of the federal industry department shows that "innovation" and all its related forms may have joined other banned words, such as "equality," in the language-sensitive Conservative government.

In an update on a communications plan to be rolled out next month at the department, people involved with the effort are told of editing changes ordered by a director-general with the department: "We were required to delete or replace all the words `innovation,' `innovate,' `innovative,' in the text," the memo states.

The document in question revolves around the industry department's approach to sustainable development — part of the wider, environmental issue that is proving so politically problematic for the Conservatives.

The memo doesn't say why "innovation" has become a bad word, but it may have something to do with the previous Liberal government's fondness for the term.

As The Star notes, the Tories had also rejected the word 'equality' with relation to the Status of Women agency's work. And this is all happening because Harper is such an obviously frightened control freak that he thinks that changing or eliminating words is the mark of a man who is innovative in charge. What these bannings show however is how childishly obsessed and insecure he is with his own power. Big boys aren't afraid of words Mr Harper and erasing them doesn't make them go away. That just shows how pathetically weak you really are.