OTTAWA - How bad is Canada's debt? By some measures we're laughing here. Our federal debt is about 35% of GDP while the U.S. passed 100% on Tuesday, and Ottawa's deficits are only 2% of GDP rather than Washington or London's staggering 10%. But let me try to wipe the smile off your face.
Well, this is embarrassing. Acting NDP Leader Nycole Turmel belonged not to one but to two separatist parties. Click here to read the rest.
It tells you a lot when people think it’s not just wrong but shocking to try to get illegal immigrants suspected of war crimes out of Canada. Like: They don’t like this country much. Well, I do and I want it back.
How did the United States get into this debt mess? President Obama blames both parties, and he's right. But the real question isn't who did it, it's how. The answer is social programs.
It’s not Question Period in China. Too bad no one told John Baird. Our new foreign minister, promoted for political adeptness in difficult portfolios, just turned in a staggeringly inept performance on his first major foreign trip. It wasn’t a problem that on Monday in Beijing he called his conversations with the Chinese government “warm, cordial and productive”. That’s the sort of bumph bureaucrats draft before and politicians sign off on after meetings even if they erupt into yelling or are so dull someone important falls asleep.