Our taxes are paying for Tory ads

Re Tories should stop using our money for their

ads, May 15 Last week, I went on the Passport Canada website to learn how to renew an expiring passport. What I found was three picture links that extolled “The Harper Government” for doing this and that.

This was clearly partisan political promotion on a Government of Canada website. Taxpayers should not pay for, or be subjected to, this “information.”

The parliamentary secretary to Stephen Harper said during debate on Sen. Mike Duffy’s expenses: “What’s also very clear to Canadians is the fact that you can’t use House of Commons resources for partisan political purposes.”

How much more corrupt is it that the current government uses more than $100 million of taxpayers’ money touting Canada’s Economic Action Plan, which is in reality Conservative party advertising? These acts are more appropriate to the president of the Republic of Burundi trying to hold on to power by any fraudulent means. Harry Walker, Burlington The Star and Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk are lambasting the provincial Liberals on a daily basis for moving to “gut” partisan advertising laws. Yet both repeatedly fail to explain how the Liberals’ claim that Lysyk has gone too far is unreasonable. On the surface, banning an ad merely because it has “red apples” indeed strikes one as being idiotic. How does “clarification” inevitably lead to “rubber stamping”? David Lowe, Etobicoke