December 2011
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Health Care and Conservative Messaging
What I mainly want to talk about in this post is not the Healthcare accord announcement itself but rather some of the peculiar messaging from the conservative party. That being said I will say a few quick points on the announcement: 1) I’m fine with a gradual reduction in healthcare transfers. At the end of the day, a system that requires funding to grow faster than the economy is not...
November 2011
2 posts
Some Brief Thoughts: Supply Managment, The Occupy...
Supply Management: For those not following the story it goes like this: Canada is entering talks to join a free-trade agreement the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). One sticking point about joining it in the past was some of Canada’s supply management programs, in particular those surrounding our dairy and poultry industries. Opposition parties are accusing the government of selling out...
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Some Thoughts on Liberal Primary Elections
By now we’ve all heard of the proposed Liberal primary elections. And by we I mean almost no one. Who pays attention to politics? Let alone the Liberals? Well I imagine these primary elections are an attempt to remedy the unfortunate situation the party finds itself in. At the very least they have the pundits chatting. Mind you these are the same people who make a big deal about Niki...
October 2011
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What I Would Like to see in a Reinvigorated...
I’ve supported the Liberal Party of Canada almost my entire political life and I’m a political junkie of the worst order to boot. Yet I can’t say the party excites me. I could talk politics for hours, yet in that time most of what you’ll hear me say is what is wrong with the NDP and what is wrong with the Cons. I’ll barely mention the Grits. I like the Liberals don’t get me wrong. I don’t support...
June 2011
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The Myth of the Fiscal Conservative
There is no doubt the Conservatives won this election on the economy. Various opinion polling shows Canadians actually oppose many of the key Conservative values but trust Harper above all else to run the economy effectively and balance the books. Seeing this I have to scratch my head and wonder, why?
Here are some facts. Government spending has increased by 45% since the Harper...