Another Day, Another Harper Government Secret
This would be hilarious if Harper’s government wasn’t so deadly serious about it.
The Canwest News Service is reporting that the Canadian military is refusing to tell Canadians how many bullets it fired in Afghanistan in 2007 because it considers the information to be a military secret. Uh… OK… Why is it secret? Well, apparently, that’s also secret.
From the Canwest piece (found on the Ottawa Citizen’s site here):
The Canadian Forces has deemed the number of bullets it fired in Afghanistan over the past year a military secret.
But in an explanation worthy of a scene from Joseph Heller’s classic satirical novel Catch-22, defence officials are claiming the reasons for that secrecy are secret.
The Brits and Americans always release this type of information. I wonder what’s so special about Canadian bullets?
