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One of the reasons the left wing has been so successful in pushing its agenda onto the long-suffering and totally unsuspecting public is because of the special language the “progressives” use. A kind of lefty code you might say. In fact the word progressive itself is a good example of a code word that has been expropriated by the left as a signal of self-righteous, smug, self-con-gratulation.

In particular, the left wing has been extremely successful at rescuing obscure words and phrases from the dustbin of the English language or creating brand new combinations of words and even inventing some of their own. Never has the use of words such as progressive, sustainability, ecosystem, landfills, diversity, footprint, composting, closure, healing, and so on, been as robust as since the left wing and their brothers in arms, the environmentalists, expropriated those words and many others for their propaganda purposes. Phrases such as retrofitting, greening buildings, community initiatives, flex housing, solid waste management, moving forward, endangered species, wetlands, ecosystems, green energy and green jobs suddenly sprang to prominence.

Of all the lefty code words, however, the one I enjoy the most is the word “transparency.” You would be hard-pressed to get through a two minute interview with Bob Rae, Elizabeth May, Al Gore or David Suzuki without “transparency” being dragged out at least a dozen times. One of the worst accusations hurled constantly against that “dreaded concealer of a secret agenda, Stephen Harper,” is that his government lacks transparency.

It is especially delightful to hear anyone with the CBC using the word since it is highly doubtful if there is a publicly funded organization anywhere in Canada that is less transparent!

I suspect that there is an inverse correlation between the use of the word and the degree of transparency of the individual or institution using it. The more you kick around the word transparency the less transparent you are. It’s certainly true with the CBC, but while the “Mother Corp” may have perfected the technique of essentially telling the public they have no right to know how or where their money is being spent so buzz off, others on the left have developed a very clever device to hide the truth, utilizing their special “code words.” It’s called “bafflegab.”

A typical example of bafflegab perfected is a response one of my listeners received when he asked a city councillor exactly what the Community Sustainability Department of the City of Ottawa does, the same questions I have asked repeatedly for months on my radio program.

We’re spending millions of taxpayer’s dollars on something called the Ottawa Community Sustainability Department. Don’t laugh, you probably have one of these things in your town, too. So my questions are: Exactly what do we get for our money? What is the purpose of this department? How do their highly paid employees spend a typical day? Since most of the communities involved have been around for a hundred or more years, far longer than any city councillor, they appear very sustainable to me, so how do you propose to improve on that and why? And above all else, please define sustainability. Exactly what does it mean?

Since I could never drag explanations from anyone, from city councillor to street sweeper, I assumed that no one—even those employed in the Ottawa Community Sustainability Department—had the faintest idea what it is supposed to accomplish. In fact, on more than one occasion I got the distinct impression that most of those around City Hall didn’t even know that such a thing as the Community Sustainability Department exists.

Now, this is probably not that unusual. Mystery departments that serve no useful purpose other than to provide well-paid jobs and marvelous benefits to people who otherwise would have to really work for a living, or even go back to school to learn something useful at a community college, have sprung up like mushrooms in the musty dark corridors of government bureaucracies all across the country.

Thus it came as a great surprise to me when a rookie city councillor was not only able to track down the Community Sustainability Department deep in the bowels of Ottawa City Hall, but was able to get them to become “transparent” enough to explain to us great unwashed exactly what wonderful things its hard-working employees and managers are doing to justify their salaries.

As God is my witness here for the first time, word for word, is the official full and transparent explanation of what the Ottawa Community Sustainability Department does. The following is part of an email sent by Ottawa City Councillor Stephen Blais to one of my listeners:

The Community Sustainability Department, which works directly with our Infrastructure Services Department, is made up of a number of branches that perform a wide range of roles and responsibilities that benefit the residents of Cumberland and Ottawa.

The Environmental Sustainability Branch provides leadership and expertise in environmental policy research, data integration and performance measurement to aid in the implementation of policies, strategies and tools to achieve sustainable development from an environmental perspective—A Green and Environmentally Sensitive City.

The Sustainability Planning and Development Branch leads the development and implementation of the National Capital Region.

Planning Initiative which addresses and responds to the ongoing planning and development challenges of the City of Ottawa. Their task includes providing leadership, advice, facilitation, coordination, and integrated planning expertise to the development of a long-term vision for the sustainable community including strategic, business and neighbourhood planning.

Finally; the Sustainability Practice and Neighbourhood Livability Branch works to ensure that the sustainability practices are implemented across departments and communities.

These practices include providing leadership, support and guidance on the identification and development, monitoring and reporting, and benchmarking of key indicators at the neighbourhood and community level and report on progress in achieving long term development strategies.

There you have it. Pure transparency. And no, I swear on a stack of Gore/Suzuki gospels, I did not make this up. Could anyone, after having read this, not fully understand exactly what the Community Sustainability Department does and the wonderful benefits it provides us taxpayers? Could anything be clearer?

One thing is for certain. We conservatives across the country understand the various explanations perfectly. In fact we can explain it all with just one word—BULLSHIT!

Fortunately it cannot baffle conservative brains!