one for the money, two for the show...

I already denounced them over this, but I couldn't resist the irony in this one from Ottawa Metro 060929 :

Literacy — it’s all about reading, writing and getting your story straight.
Or so it seemed this week in Ottawa.
On Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government axed $17.7-million from the Human Resources’ department’s Adult Learning and Literacy Skills Program as part of a massive wave of spending cuts across government.
Yesterday, Harper’s wife Laureen was on the streets of Ottawa, promoting literacy.
Clad in a yellow T-shirt and handing out newspapers in the drizzle as part of a CanWest media company promotion of child literacy, it seemed that perhaps Laureen Harper hadn’t seen the memo about the literacy cuts earlier in the week.
Ditto for Harper’s chief of staff, Ian Brodie, who coughed up a $20 literacy donation when he came across his boss’s wife on the street in front of the Parliament buildings.