The evil Harper government acting in secret? Oh... it's just McGuinty...

Seriously... it's amazing that the Toronto Star even reported the fact that the McGuinty Liberals have been holding secret talks with the unions in an effort to make a deal with them that would help the Ontario government get out of the massive hole they spent themselves into. Would it be too much for us to ask them to hold Dalton McGuinty to the same standard they hold the Harper government (mostly in a paranoid fantasy sense) to?

Of course it's too much!

Anybody want to bet that McGuinty was hoping this whole thing would stay under wraps so that he could make it look like he pulled some magic rabbit out of a hat to fix Ontario's problems? I am not even going to pretend like he had any intention of letting the Ontario public (you know, his bosses?) in on the game until it was too late to know what concessions were made. I bet he would even have found some way to ensure confidentiality in whatever deals he made.

Because he's just like that.

And all those people who complain that Stephen Harper's government is the most secretive, deceptive and unaccountable government out there? I doubt they'll even bat an eyelash over this one.