Harper, the ultimate anti-democrat

After banning the media from covering the arrival of the Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan, Harper took away a little bit more of our rights as humans yesterday.

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

So in this spirit, and in order to fulfill two of his promises namely “accountability” and “transparency” (*insert sarcasm*), Harper decided to refrain from holding press conferences unless his staff gets to pick which journalists ask questions.

Who does he think he is exactly?

Bush (well that we knew)? Castro? Jiabao? Mugabe?

I cross my fingers that the masses will realize how wrong this is (and won’t forget about it within two hours), but I am highly skeptical. The same scheme worked very well South of the border after all.