Political hearing loss

It's one of those cases where the left hand doesn't seem to know what the right hand is doing.

Toronto newspapers -- including the Star -- published news stories today about the Ontario government voting Tuesday night cutting off public hearings into its controversial new human rights overhaul.

And yet the government, through the Legislature's standing committee on justice policy chaired by a Liberal MPP, still placed ads in those newspapers telling concerned citizens that they could apply to present their views to the committee over the winter.

Oops!

Perhaps someone should alert the Progressive Conservative party's new website asking for tales of government waste at www.wastebusters.ca.