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The Prime Minister’s Office has attributed two extremely partisan letters, posted by the conservative cabinet minister on the official website of government of Canada, to be assuredly inappropriate and ordered them to be deleted immediately. The letters were posted by the minister of Canadian International Development Agency, Julian Fantino, on the departmental website in December.
The notification alleged that the letters violated several policies of government communications, which are articulated to make sure that the taxpayer-funded civil service are not used for partisan purposes. Headline of one of the two letters read: “Dear NDP: CIDA Does Not Need Your Economic Advice,” whereas the other was aimed at the Liberals as it compared their policies with policies of Conservatives. The spokesperson of Fantino informed The Canadian Press via an email that both the letters were “posted in error” and that CIDA “has been asked to remove them immediately.” The letter was criticized by experts in public administration, who called the NDP letter to be clearly breaching rules, once after a link to it was posted on Twitter late Tuesday afternoon.
A political science professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Jonathan Rose, who assists the Ontario government policy on non-partisan advertising, commented about the letter, saying that it “seems to violate every single one of the Treasury Board principles” on government communications. On the other hand, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair informed the media that he has never come across anything like this posted on a government website in his more than two decades in politics.
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