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Category Archives: Parliament
Stop the world!
Canada’s soldiers have been asked to do so much for so long with so little that, the Ottawa Citizen reports, chief of the army land staff Andrew Leslie just told the Senate national security and defence committee that our entire … Continue reading
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Nobodies… with wallets
Everybody talks about empowering backbench MPs. But nobody seems to mean what they say. At any rate, in today’s Globe and Mail Brian Laghi and Jane Taber report that Michael Ignatieff has announced that he’ll protect sitting Liberal MPs from … Continue reading
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30 billion here, 30 billion there…
During the campaign, the Tories said no deficits; wouldn’t be prudent. Now they insist that only hair-raisingly huge deficits are prudent. As, apparently, is leaking your budget so it won’t terrify people on the day. It’s as if “prudent” were … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Infrastructure, Parliament, Politics
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Firm… but flexible
I see that Michael Ignatieff is double-talking tough on the new Tory budget, telling his first caucus meeting as leader
“This budget has three simple tests that it must pass. Will it protect the most vulnerable? Will it save jobs? And … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Parliament, Politics, Uncategorized
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On the way to St. Ives?
Out in B.C. they’ve finally summoned up the courage to lay polygamy charges against breakaway Mormons. Now let’s see if all the right-thinking leftists who insisted that courts should not let elected legislators show disrespect to the romantic and sexual … Continue reading