Speaking of the agenda: Continuing Tax Burden on Business cbc.ca, Canadian firms face huge red tape tax burden: study (http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/05/07/study-corporate-taxes-canada.html?ref=rss), May 7 ‘09 “The complexity and the cost of compliance affect competitiveness, and Canada faces a major challenge on this … Continue reading →
Brown’s proposal for global government Gordon Brown Calls for EU-US Global Order (Farage and Hannan speak out), by europarl, youtube.com, Mar 24 ‘09 Brown: “Our regulations should apply to every bank, everywhere at every time, with no opt-out for a … Continue reading →
From the Western Standard “Shotgun Blog”: Libertarian Party leader uses free CBC airtime to take on Harper’s record Two-minute script: I’m Dennis Young, leader of the Libertarian Party. I’m running against Stephen Harper in Calgary South West to contrast the … Continue reading →
Canadian Press, 17th July 2008 – Premiers strike deal on energy efficiency but could not agree on emissions plan (http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iTAUawl8hm4ccBoxQu4m1VF48bwg) Council of the Federation meeting: Alberta and Saskatchewan support “carbon capture” technology – sure, a really useful technology for storing … Continue reading →
Canada’s economic freedom score is close (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021718.html) to that of the US. Ratings by the Heritage Foundation: 80.56 for the U.S. and 80.18 for Canada. What I take from that is the two countries are more or less equally unfree. … Continue reading →
Another of my posts at the Western Standard blog. Saturday, June 14 is the Fraser Institute’s Tax Freedom Day (http://www.fraserinstitute.org/commerce.web/newsrelease.aspx?nID=5368). This is the day average Canadians have finished working to pay all forms of tax. Niels Veldhuis of the Fraser … Continue reading →
Provinces angry over drug rules “Provinces are lashing back at proposed federal regulations that would extend the patent life of a number of popular medications and postpone the introduction of generic copies…” Challenge to B.C.’s Carbon Tax (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080527.wdiscusscarbon0527/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview) “B.C. is … Continue reading →
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/017154.html) November 26th, 2007
Continue reading →My answers are indented: Website: www.saveourstructures.ca “Dear Candidate, “The Province of Ontario downloaded hundreds of dilapidated units of public housing onto the City of Toronto in 2001, with no capital funding to fix them. As a result, Toronto Community Housing … Continue reading →
Hansard Highlights from Sept. 18, 2006 Mon, Sept. 18, 2006. Edited Hansard. Number 47. 39th Parliament, 1st Session (https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/39-1/house/sitting-47/hansard) (original link: http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Pub=hansard&Ses=1&DocId=2319085&File=0) Global-warming and Kyoto The government in this exchange defended itself over the Environment and its skepticism towards the … Continue reading →