Transparency Ontario Style
Globe and Mail article
And everyone of them may very well be able to get the one time $1,000.00 check from the government to offset the HST. That being the amount a family will get if they make less than $160,000.00 a year. Why any family making that kind of money should get anything is beyond me. This is just another maddening example of those with very little subsidizing those with a great deal more. In fact I would like to know how many families there are in Ontario pulling down 160G's a year, or in that range, who aren't in the public service. That would be an interesting question I think.
This is the real face of universality the poor and the rapidly declining middle class subsidizing public servants that are much better off. I think the people of Ontario in the battered private sector will appreciate the transparency more if they're told how many Ontario government employees will qualify for that $1,000.00. All of it coming on the backs of those less well to do. With this kind of stealing from the poor to pay the rich(er) going on does anyone wonder why Ontario is a have not province anymore.
Let's see if anyone starts to ask some questions about that aspect of the HST in light of this latest revolting revelation from Queens Park.
31 - March - 2010
World Turned Upside Down
Vancouver Sun article
Now here is something I never thought I'd see or read about in Canada. Those constant proponents of "re-distribution of the wealth" the NDP fighting more taxation. I know it's all for show as the moment they get in they would do the same, and probably worse.
However it's rather refreshing to read that maybe they're starting to understand you can go to the well only so often. As to the title of this blog that is the song the British Army played when they surrendered at Yorktown to the Continental Army.
And in Quebec, where courteous driving is unheard of, apparently the government of Jean Charest is about to start looting the pockets of Quebecer's as much or even more then the rest of Canada. Here is a case of a provincial government, like that of Ontario, still not grasping the fact that you can move the same dollar bill around only so often before it wears out.
Strange times.
31 - March -2010
Ann Coulter Talk Cancelled at Ottawa U.
After waiting patiently for almost 2 hours for the doors to open I was told that while I had ordered a ticket online my name was not on the list for admission. As such I wasn't allowed into the hall to hear Ms Coulter give her presentation. That was a fair call on the part of the organizers and I took my not being allowed to enter in good spirits as I had not received a confirmation email that my request had been received in time. I arrived at about 5:45 pm. and there was a small group patiently waiting for the doors to open. When I left it was 7:20 pm. and the crowd waiting to hear Ms. Coulter speak stretched around almost three sides of Marion Hall. I saw no disruptive behaviour anywhere so whatever took place happened after.
Imagine my surprise to wake up and find out that Ms Coulter wasn't even allowed to speak because of demonstrations by people who have decided they and only they can say who can and who cannot be heard in Canada. It should certainly have you in the media questioned what manner of goons we are creating who appear to follow the rules of what Abe Lincoln once referred to as "mob" law. Last night at Ottawa University Canada's reputation as a civilized nation might well have suffered a grievous, of not deadly, body blow in the eyes of anyone who appreciates the need for open debate as a forum for change. Were the actions that lead to the cancellation planned, if so by whom, and will they be charged under the law?
Since federal money (our money) is given to those institutions it would seem an RCMP investigation is warranted to get to the bottom of this and find if it was pre-arranged. Given the letter the Provost Mr Houle wrote that appeared in the news I think there is a good place to start any inquiry into what happened. If Mr. Houle did have anything to do with this situation I would expect him to be charged under the proper legal statute. That people who may erroneously think of themselves as our future leaders can decide , on their own, who has the right to speak with all this taking place at public expense is absolutely unacceptable and they should be expelled and the student council dissolved. At the very least the federal Government should reconsider any and all funding to these institutions until it is found out just what it is they are teaching them. In fact it might not be a bad idea to also look at our public school system and secondary school systems as well. As it stands at the moment if this is what our money is producing I want my part of it back.
Lastly it appears it's time to change, not our national anthem, but our flag. Let us take off the Maple Leaf and replace it with a banana. This would be so much more in keeping as a symbol of what our nation is becoming.
24 - March - 2010
Faux to the Left of Me and Faux to the Right of Me
I find it funny, in a twisted way, that Mr. Duceppe likens the sovereigntists to the resisters during the Second World War. Considering how much they have their hand out for funding (transfer payments) from other parts of the country I would think the word collaborators would be more in line.
If they're actually resisters as Mr. Duceppe claims I suggest their "cause" will have more of a moral foundation to it if they resist any further transfer payments that have it appears held them in bondage for years. The only thing worse then being forced to listen to the leader of a bunch of faux-separatists is to also have to listen to the leaders of a bunch of faux-federalist parties who won't call their bluff.
I personally loath both sides in this sham.
22 - March - 2010
Letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Mark Steyn Blog Entry
To the Right Honourable Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
Parliament Hill
Ottawa, Ontario
As your government is wrestling with the problem of how to cut spending I suggest you cut funding to a University System that allows employee's to write letters as this individual has done to Ms. Ann Coulter concerning her upcoming speech at Ottawa University. This is Canada Mr. Prime Minister the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled on free speech to the affect that all speech is covered under the Charter, excepting those items that are covered under the criminal code.
These days the atmosphere on a Canadian University campus is positively stifling in the closed minded ideas and attitude I read about time and again. We run the risk of sending young people to university, at the public expense, ignorant of the world at large and having them coming out intolerant of most of it.
22 - March - 2010
Obamacare Set to Pass
Well it seems that the Congress of the United States is about to allow the government to control 1/7 of the economy of the United States with Obamacare. However the pesky Founding Fathers and their "Checks and Balances" act keep rearing their ugly heads as these safeguards were supposed to all along. It seems that, so far, both Idaho and Virginia passed legislation allowing their residents to opt-out of Obamacare see here.
The interesting thing in all of this is the continued spectre of "States Rights" raising it's head up over and over as the individual states have no interest in paying for a federal program they know will be downloaded on their backs by the Federal Government. This action, in Canada, has in the past being almost a national pastime as the fed's pass a law or program then download the costs onto the provinces who then download it on the municipal governments who then have to pay the freight. All this with the knowledge that there is only one taxpayer and he or she is ultimately the one getting the shaft.
With all this going on what has really been ignored by the MSM (main stream media) in the United States is the growing 10th Amendment movement where a lot of states are now falling back on this amendment to stop having these federal actions downloaded on to their shoulders by passing resolutions re-affirming the sovereignty of the state. It seems that , aside from the indefensible moral issue of slavery, the former Southern Confederacy was absolutely correct to secede over the continued intrusion of the federal government in those areas that the constitution firmly gave only to the state; or to the people themselves.
So the circle is unbroken and they're right back to where they were in 1861. Just where does the separation of the powers between federal and state both start and end. So with the wheel possibly having turned full circle another thorny issue might face the United States of America once again.
Secession.
21 - March -2010
I'm Not Surprised
Ottawa Citizen article
I'm not surprised that this is happening. It pretty much describes the health of free speech on University campuses in Canada these days. Here we have a bunch of students, subsidized by the taxpayers, deciding arbitrarily who can and who cannot speak on a public campus based only on what they don't want to hear. It seems to me that maybe we the taxpayers should now start asking if we want to continue to support so-called institutions of higher learning where free speech is allowed only of you believe that a healthy debate is, as Van Morrison sings, "the sound of one hand clapping."
Perhaps they're angling for a job on any of the Human Rights Commissions in this country for this is how those organizations operate as well; selectively permitted individual liberties and not constitutionally protected civil liberties. Birds of a feather and the whole flock driven by only one emotion - fear. Too many students go into university ignorant of much of life and are going to come out, it appears, intolerant of most of it. I want my money back.
20 - March - 2010
Now This IS Interesting
Montreal Gazette article
My heavens we free market Libertarians apparently have been on to something all along. Which is the more a market is allowed to operate on the free exchange of goods and services people tend to be nicer human beings. Unlike Communism, National Socialism, Fascism, and all the other ism's that are held up by threats, coercion, and intimidation tactics. Along with the increasing encroachment on civil liberties and freedom of choice, freedom of association, and private property.
The latter not only being about ownership but the protection it accords the average citizen from the self-serving actions of the state. Those people who wrote the Magna Carta and the Constitution of the United States seemed to have had the right idea as well. They also had a good idea of human nature and how power tends to corrupt. So the checks and balances were placed there to make sure not too much power accrued into the hands of either one person or a select group. My only question is this; what happened in Canada?
19 - March - 2010
A Blow at Private Schools (Part 2)
Montreal Gazette article
Maybe the real question the average Canadian should be asking is under governments increasingly manifesting the blatant socialist hostility to the concept of Civil Liberties is there actually anything we can do anymore? I have long believed that a by-product of socialism is enforced arrested adolescence in grown-ups. A state where the state itself doesn't want you to make decisions that run contrary to its' idea of what is right and wrong.
Another aspect of this particular situation is are the Quebec elites making sure their children cannot learn English as well? This done so as to ensure a level playing field in the future for all Quebec children. Some how I don't think they feel the law applies to them. A double standard that appears right across the country regardless of the political party involved. Considering their own childish actions I think they're on very weak ground and this might be from a inflated sense of self-esteem; of entitlement.
18 - March - 2010
Language of the Home - Janice Kennedy Article - Ottawa Citizen
I had trouble putting my finger on what was wrong with Janice Kennedy's article Language of the Home from yesterday but it finally came to me. Her opening statement is nothing more than an ad hominum attack against the people and not their very real concerns and arguments. Just attack the other person and try and undermine what they say by debasing both their character and motives.
Mr Ryan bristles when, he claims, Anglo-Canadians suggest French be confined to Quebec. Yet the Quebec government is apparently poised to invoke Bill 101 to prevent French parents from having a method and way, that of private unfunded schools, where they can have their children learn English.
Here it seems the provincial government of Quebec is doing a bang up job of segregating on it's own and denying Canadians the free choice of not only where their children go to school, but what they learn there as well. We can't learn anything from Quebec it seems when it comes to segregation.
Can anyone tell me if the provincial government's senior members children are denied the chance to learn English, is this a uniform situation for everyone? How many of them are in private schools where English is taught? Paradoxically this might start another exodus from Quebec of French people who want their kids to learn English.
Isn't that a funny thought.
16 - March -2010
And The "Gates" Just Keep On Coming
Guardian.co.uk article
While the IPCC reels under another attack of it apparently "cooking the books" on another predication something else must now be taken into consideration. No good can come from all of this exposing of their fraudulent studies and the so-called "settled science" if this nonsense is still being force fed to children in primary and secondary school as gospel. Certainly here in Canada all attempts to proselytize the religion of climate change using public money should cease immediately.
I think taxpayers, especially those who happen to be the parents of those children, should start asking the school boards and the provincial governments some serious questions. The answers they receive might convince them that their children are not being educated but indoctrinated.
Where will this all end?
It will begin to end when we say goodbye to the United Nations for starters. An organization which is filled with people believing in the paternalistic socialist mentality at best and out and out tyranny at it's worse. All of whom appear to be consistently wrong in their predictions, dangerous in their actions, and blind in the end to the results of those actions; time after time.
It's time to say goodbye.
16 - March - 2010
Is this not exploitation of Children of the worst sort?
Well so much for the Federal governments promise to do something about the exploitation of woman. Now it appears the Family Reunification program is being used to transport children across international borders for God knows what reason. Makes you wonder why they make such a big deal about child prostitution rings doesn't it? It now appears that the governments both federal and provincial are pandering to people who are apparently engaging in the exploitation children.
I have always admitted that there are some pretty unsavoury men in the world and in this case it appears they are working over at immigration. You don't think their doing this to keep the numbers up and thus hang on to their jobs? Also, and more importantly, when did Sharia Law trump Canada's laws concerning the exploitation of children? Surely we have a perfect situation here to make sure it doesn't become embedded in the Canadian value system.
Perhaps the women of Canada should propose enacting a law whereby anyone found to be involved in this activity will be subject to immediately deportation, if possible, after having their citizenship revoked, if they even have one. Because the women of this country, many of whom came to the new world to get away from this, have much to be worried about if this is allowed to continue.
13 - March - 2010
Illegal Search and Seizure
The Harper governments plans to allow police to stop people, without cause, flies directly in the face of article 8 of the constitution which states, " ...everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure". I believe motorists being stopped without any discernable reason is a direct violation of this clause which protects citizens from the arbitrary and illegal actions of the police.
If this is the case, and I believe I'm correct, why pass a law that will only face, at a future date, a constitutional challenge? When the government is about to give it's blessing to the police to engage in what our constitutions states, quite clearly, is an illegal act what kind of country are we becoming?
Ask yourself that one.
11 - March - 2010
A Blow at Private Schools
Globe and Mail Article
This is nothing more than a blow aimed at private schools where children are quite possibly getting a superior education to that supplied in the Public School System. This is another blow at parents having a choice of where they send their children for education. This choice based solely on what they see as being in the best interest of their children and not merely to bolster up governments that are slowly, but increasingly , over-stepping the authority of parents as to how they raise their children.
Note how the report states,"..the proportion of children whose mother tongue was French and who had enrolled in the non-subsidized English language schools ballooned from 12-per cent in 1998 to 23-per cent in 2002 when the law was changed to close the loophole". Here is a clear case where parents of French ancestry know that in the global market the need for English is an absolute necessity for their children to reach their potential. This action is more in line of keeping people penned in and dependent on the very same state that denies them freedom of choice. A choice that might open up greater opportunities in their childrens future and the real ability to not be dependent at all.
This is another example in Canada of an action that serves a backward out-of-date provincial government mentality and not that of the parents, the people, or the nation as a whole.
04 - March - 2010
A Blow at Private Schools (Part 2)
Montreal Gazette article
Maybe the real question the average Canadian should be asking is under governments increasingly manifesting the blatant socialist hostility to the concept of Civil Liberties is there actually anything we can do anymore? I have long believed that a by-product of socialism is enforced arrested adolescence in grown-ups. A state where the state itself doesn't want you to make decisions that run contrary to its' idea of what is right and wrong.
Another aspect of this particular situation is are the Quebec elites making sure their children cannot learn English as well? This done so as to ensure a level playing field in the future for all Quebec children. Some how I don't think they feel the law applies to them. A double standard that appears right across the country regardless of the political party involved. Considering their own childish actions I think they're on very weak ground and this might be from a inflated sense of self-esteem; of entitlement.
18 - March - 2010