Back in the day on Parliament Hill, there used to be something called a Budget Lockup. The members of the Fifth Estate were led into a conference room and presented with copies of the new Federal Budget. While reporters pored over the details of the budget, they were locked in the room so that no details could be leaked until the Finance Minister finished presenting the budget in the House of Commons. The media complied, largely due to the fact that they wanted their confiscated laptops and PDAs back.
Wow, does that ever seem like a quaint little tradition today. This page guesses then when people get elected who have no qualms about systematically ignoring the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and don't care about breaking their own legislation, the paltry conventional stuff like the Budget Lockup was sure to follow. Is there anything that the Tories haven't leaked by themselves already? Hope somebody remembered to bring a deck of cards to the Congress Centre tomorrow afternoon.
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