According to the fledgling Broadbent Institute, Canadians are so worried about inequality they want to pay higher taxes. Good luck campaigning on that. Still, I think these Institute guys are on to something. Click here to read the rest.
How about a second helping of hospital food? No, really. They’ll even trim the crusts off the egg salad sandwiches for you. They being the bistro staff at Ottawa’s Queensway Carleton Hospital, not the politicians endlessly praising our health system while doing their utmost to make it horrible. Click here to read the rest.
Practically everything about government budgets makes me want to scream, from reckless spending to vacuous rhetoric. Take Thursday’s federal “Economic Action Plan 2012”… please. First, it was awful. Then almost everybody said exactly what you’d expect if they’d written their press release, column, or news story before the thing even appeared.
Reaction on Thursday was predictable. The Green Party said Jim Flaherty delivered a budget that was "tough on nature"; the Ottawa Citizen said he delivered one that "includes major changes to ... the size of government"; the Communications Workers of America Canada said: "Federal budget threatens Canada's social and cultural fabric". But I was there and I can tell you the government did not deliver a budget at all. Click here to read the rest.
Despite his hard-won reputation for unreliability, I pay attention when Dalton McGuinty talks, about Ontario's debt or anything else. I know I can count on him ... to be misleading in important ways. Click here to read the rest.
Apparently the NDP hope the public will get tired of Conservatives and elect socialists instead. I think we should elect conservatives instead. My smouldering discontent with the Harper administration burst into leaping red flames on March 22 when Jim Flaherty promised no “austerity budget” next Thursday.