If you don't want to get caught:"The way we found these guys out is almost comical. We only had a bunch of grandmothers there and the big 250-pound guy in the middle eating all the cookies was the ex-RCMP cop."
Pay attention, Albertans:
Public money spent to spy on landowners: NDP
Alberta's arms-length energy regulator hired a private investigator to pose as a concerned citizen and infiltrate a group of landowners opposing the construction of a massive power line, new documents show.
The provincial NDP released documents obtained under Freedom of Information legislation Thursday that also show investigators gave the Energy and Utilities Board passwords that would allow it to listen in on the landowners' private conference calls.
NDP leader Brian Mason said it is a case of using public money to spy on Albertans.
"This goes far beyond what's necessary to protect the integrity of the hearing," Mason said.
"This was intelligence gathering and it was political intelligence."
The more you learn about Conservative governments, the less you can trust them. Ironic, since their philosophy is supposed to include less government interference in peoples' lives. You'd be hard-pressed to find any of those Conservative creatures in power anywhere in this country these days though. They're quite the paranoid bunch.
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