The inquiry commissions such as the now renowned Gommery Commission serve as rehabilitation agents for the state. In the context of capital’s crisis of accumulation, the government needs to refresh its image, because it will soon need to impose on us more suffering in order to once again attempt to get the ruling class out of the always deeper crisis of its mode of production. This means more misery for our class.

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For a good number of months now, on a daily basis, the Canadian population has been enlightened by the increasingly seedy revelations of the now infamous sponsorship scandal. Though originally an initiative of the Chrétien government to “halt the separatist threat in Québec