Words that should be banned: Canada's new government

Our words this week: Canada's new government.

In September this typist informed you about the minority Conservative government's wish to have itself referred to as Canada's new government. There would be no more references to the "Canadian Government" or "Government of Canada." No, the word "new" was now mandatory.

So dogmatic is this minority Conservative government that it fired a senior government scientist who dared protest the edict. Of course, Dr. Andrew Okulitch was immediately reinstated when the minority Conservative government realized that firing employees for refusing to use authorized words is more in keeping with iron-fisted dictatorships than open democracies. Thank goodness for a free press, although it did not escape this typist's notice that the good scientist got his job back only after the story hit the press. This speaks volumes of this government.

Let's protest the churlish and petty actions of this minority Conservative government by refusing to use its shiny new words. Let's ban the words Canada's new government and see if they try to fire us. In fact, let's just ban Canada's new government altogether.