Practice What You Preach

For the life of me, I can't imagine why anyone would be against transparency.

After he finished his hour-long testimony, Adler immediately took a phone call from "a constituent" and turned his back to reporters.  He was then ushered out of the room by a staffer into a hallway where reporters are not permitted.

The Star's interview request to Adler's office was denied Tuesday, with another staff member describing it as a "really busy time for us."  Several emailed questions had not been responded by late evening.

That pretty much sums up the Harper Conservative approach to transparency, doesn't it?

They know they're hypocrites.  They don't care.  Empire builders don't follow the rules, after all, they make them up as they go. 

Here's the problem with that general approach to life - when you don't practice what you preach, people don't trust you.  And when you see but through the glass darkly, you tend not to see the consequences for such shortsightedness until it's too late.