If you thought this summer's $60 million government bailout of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights was the last of your money going into this white elephant, then you haven't read their latest corporate plan. They want more. Lots more. Details in a minute... The museum's board of trustees realizes it has a great big horking credibility problem. Among the seven things the Museum "needs" to do is: * Restore and retain public confidence , developing and sustaining momentum and support until opening and beyond. Ya think? Just because the museum proponents... * lied to the Senate by promising that taxpayers would never be asked for more than the initial $100 million federal start-up money * deliberately lowballed the cost of the project at $265 million to get government approval---and financing * lied that the $310 million new cost was the bottom line guaranteed final figure * lied that the museum would pay its property taxes *
The origin of the Usher of the Black Rod goes back to early fourteenth century England . Today, with no royal duties to perform, the Usher knocks on the doors of the House of Commons with the Black Rod at the start of Parliament to summon the members. The rod is a symbol for the authority of debate in the upper house. We of The Black Rod adopted the symbol to knock some sense and the right questions into the heads of Legislators, pundits, and other opinion makers.