ns on face value. Soon he is recommending hislike minded associates for positions within the Privy Council Office(PCO) and theDepartment of Finance. Being non partisan and a career bureaucrat Hal does his best toremain outside the gaze of the Prime Ministers Office(PMO). They would be consideredthe enemy, a purely political organ that operates only to ensure the rule of the primeminister is obeyed and respected. A kind of political spleen, to fight off infection. Halsassociates slowly enter into mid level positions through out the department of NationalDefense, Public Works and Justice. Nothing has yet felt by the head but a significantportion of the government is under control. Once the command and control organs ofselected departments have been breached. The real chaos can begin. "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned." 2 However Hal and his like-mindedband are worse than scorned, they are driven. Through several reorganizations of the midlevel bureaucracy, Hals tribe survives mostly intact. Strong and confident, they are moreactive than ever. Like Stalins slow take over of the Russian communist party in the early1920s Hal has a dedicated following of those who trust him, owe him their jobs. Thesepeople are spread about on many advisory committees, and are involved in directlycommunicating with deputy ministers to the majority of cabinet positions. Ever so slightly statistics are skewed. Front line service feedback is altered.Slowly the misinformation reaches all the way to the top. The minister of transportallocates, too many wheat type railroad cars to the province of Saskatchewan, eventhough Ontario voted in the ruling party to improve grain shipping in that province(Hallikes socialists). The prime minister pushing for the purchase of Belgian Euro-fighterplanes which are extremely expensive, but the memos hes received from the departmentof defense says the American F-15s are faulty and the goods are required post ...
