So that's what an "accomplishment" looks like: Part deux.

Shorter Blogging Tory and Harper fluffer Sandy Crux: "And in other news, Prime Minister Stephen Harper ate a hot dog and petted a kitten today. These are clearly 'accomplishments' for several reasons."

BY THE WAY, Sandy, I'm amused by this alleged "accomplishment":

Hep C compensation redressed – for latest court rulings that clear the way for national $1 billion package (Link)

whose link takes us to:

Rulings help 'forgotten' hep C victims

EDMONTON -- Canadians infected with hepatitis C from tainted blood transfusions welcomed court rulings that clear the way for a national $1 billion compensation package.

By Times Colonist (Victoria)June 10, 2007

which sounds, like, totally awesome and everything until ...

Hepatitis C won't wait
People die while compensation administrator stalls

... the 62-year-old [Martin Brook] has spent the last 18 months in a frustrating odyssey of paperwork and endless doctors' visits to prove that he indeed contracted hepatitis C from a tainted blood transfusion more than 25 years ago and that he should be eligible for his promised share of the federal government's $1 billion compensation package.

Meanwhile, the former federal civil servant is too sick to work and with their debts climbing, he and his wife are in dire financial straits. "They made a promise. This just shouldn't take this long," he says.

"Our nerves are fried," adds his wife, Bev Chapman, as she lights yet another cigarette. "They've had letters from three doctors and they're ignoring their findings. How are you supposed to prove this now?" ...

Now eligible for $290,000 from Harper's package, he expected settling his claim would be just as straight-forward, especially because a clause acknowledged that it would be difficult to find hospital records after so much time and by law, they only need to be kept for 10 years. Instead, victims could present evidence from a medical practitioner that "more likely than not" they had received tainted blood.

But Crawford Class Action Services, appointed by the court to be the independent administrator of the compensation plan, continues to throw up roadblocks for Brook at every turn.

Luckily, the catastrophic failure of the vaunted Hep C compensation program in no way diminishes its value as an "accomplishment." After all, the Harper government announced it; therefore, it is done. Actual follow-through optional.

AND JUST IN CASE you weren't sure what the time frame was supposed to be, well, there's this:

Prime Minister Harper announces agreement to compensate pre-1986/post-1990 hepatitis C victims
25 July 2006
Cambridge, Ontario

... “Because these victims have waited long enough for what is due to them, our government is going to do everything in its power to ensure that matters are moved ahead as quickly as possible,” added the Prime Minister.

The "accomplishments" of Stephen Harper: More ignored and dead Canadians. I'm starting to see an ugly pattern here.