Incompetent or Malevolent?
Those are usually the two choices when something goes completely and utterly WRONG.
When it comes to the favourite Federal Government Program whipping-boy ie. the Federal Gun Registry, Captain Ed seems to be suggesting the second choice:
The RCMP, as the national law-enforcement agency, can act independently to investigate corruption and malfeasance. However, it needs the time and resources to do that. A government that wanted to avoid having the RCMP looking into its actions -- say in Adscam or other hidden scandals -- could handicap the agency by burdening it with a populist but massive new program, selling it as a low-cost civic safety program, and then underfunding it so that it ate up all of the agency's resources. That would leave the agency with no time and no people for other efforts, including political investigations.
But I'm willing to give the former government the benefit of the doubt: I'll go for the "incompetent" choice any day. I can't believe that they would A: be able to even think of this plan and B: be able to implement it so effectively. Anyone who could do that wouldn't have botched the election so completely (I still can't get the picture of Paul Martin playing air guitar the night before the election out of my head!)
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