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Remember “Canada’s New Government”?

I do, mostly because I was responsible for stuffing the phrase into every “Message of the Day” promoted by the first minority Harper government.

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You remember the “Harper Government,” don’t you? That famous, factual two-word description that got up the nose of the fourth estate?

If you do, it’s because political staffers like me shoehorned it into every news release issued by the, um, Harper Government during its second term, especially as we delivered Canada’s economic action plan to combat the global recession.

Ah, “Canada’s Economic Action Plan.” Now there’s a saying that was hammered into skulls like nails into construction sites as billions of infrastructure dollars were spent across the country.

The absence of linguistic variety might not make the heart grow fonder, but it does make the head softer, to the point where it might retain a message in these, our distracted times.