HIV Announcement "Short on Specifics" & Clement Even More So

Globe and Mail's comment that the gov't's HIV announcement was "short on specifics" is the understatement of the week. But in that regard the announcement paled in comparison to Mr. Clement answering Don Newman's questions on Politics, much as Don tried. Our current representatives of the people have become masters not of double-speak, but of no-speak.

So we have no idea where the money will go and for what: there was a brief reference to 'private partners' and a disjointed sentence including the words 'international partners'; there were several hanging in the air references to 'production and distribution'. My guess is that our universities will not be seeing much, if any, of this money. The gov't is being circumspect on this either because they are just making a pre-election announcement and have no idea what they are doing on this file - like just a few others - or the money is going to the private sector.