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The Conservatives thinks that growing pot is worst than raping a child
Of course my title isn’t true. I am willing to bet that 99.9% of all Conservatives, much like 99.9% of all sane decent human beings, would agree that raping a child is worst than growing pot. So it is incredibly puzzling to me why the Conservative government would want to create a justice system that views pot growers as being worst than child rapists. As Ethan Baron of the Province points out,
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 21st, 2011 | @freedomnation
Gary Johnson to be included in GOP debate
This is fantastic news. All things considered Gary Johnson would likely be my pick for president. I am ecstatic that he is finally being included in the debate. He is a voice that needs to heard.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 20th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Government Spending Doesn't Create Jobs
Well it does create jobs, but it doesn't create wealth. And as the video points out wealth is what needs to be created for a more prosperous society.
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 20th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Economic Freedom of the World Index shows decline in Canada
The Fraser Institute has released its new Economic Freedom of the World Index, and for the first time the United States ranks below Canada in terms of economic freedom. Not just below but significantly below. The United States ranks tenth in the world and Canada ranks a comfortable 6th. But before you get too smug you should take a moment to compare the scores of Canada this year to last year.In t
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 20th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Reason TV: The CA Marijuana Movement after Prop 19
Prop 19 was a fascinating and very plausable attempt to end maurijuana prohibition. Why did it fail? What about 2012?
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 17th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Rob Ford's move not to bid for Olympic Games was right
The best concrete thing that Rob Ford has done so far is to nix Toronto's bid for the Olympics. In most cases hosting the Olympics is ran on a huge lost and even the more successful model of private funding may be impossible with modern security concerns.Steve Lafleur explains in this Huffington Post article:To determine the conditions under which a city can run a successful Olympics, Torontonian
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 16th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Obama's buy America plan not Harper's fault
It is part of the job of the opposition parties in Parliament to criticize the government. To do so effectively they need credibility and you don’t help your credibility when you blame the government for something that is clearly not its fault. A good example of this has come up recently with the Obama administration’s plan to introduce a “buy American” provision with its “jobs” plan.
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 16th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Is the Premier Office too powerful?
With the debate in the provincial election mostly focused on the leaders, I think this is a good opportunity to take a moment and consider if the Premier of Ontario has too much power compared to the other political institutions.
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 16th, 2011 | @freedomnation
According to the NDP, being a responsible adult is a punishment
Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath has announced that if she was Premier of Ontario students wouldn’t have to pay interest on their government loans. She defends this position by saying:“We have to stop punishing people for investing in their future. It doesn’t help any of us when people graduate buried under a mountain of debt,” she said, flanked by Ryerson students and Trinity-Spadina can
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 15th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Stand firm Rob Ford
Rob Ford is a man under siege. In an effort to fix the City of Toronto’s financial situation he has insisted on finding “efficiencies” and not raising taxes. At this point it is pretty clear that “efficiencies” has to mean program cuts, but still this should not deter Mr. Ford. Government finances, despite the mythology of socialists, do not run on magic. Tough decisions have to be made
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 15th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Ontario NDP using Jack Layton's name (ii)
Yesterday I wrote that NDP leader Andrea Horwath was deserving of respect for telling local campaigns not to use the death of Jack Layton to win sympathy. She said that the NDP campaign will be focused on people, which I assume means on public policy.Today it has come out that the central campaign has also used Jack Layton’s name to raise money. I don’t know if Ms. Horwath approved the fundrai
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 15th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Making sex offender registry public is a bad idea for public safety
The PC Party’s idea of a website of registered sex offenders makes no sense as a public safety proposal. I can understand the concept behind a registration for sex offenders and I can certainly understand restrictions on where someone convicted of specific sex crimes can live, but I don’t understand how a website would do anything for “a law-abiding family’s right to safety.”No other pol
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 14th, 2011 | @freedomnation
In politics money isn't everything
The importance of money in politics is usually exaggerated. Consider the recent Republican victory in New York.Money raised:Bob Turner (R) $200,000David Weprin (D) $500,000Having more money is an advantage certainly, but you can't buy an election.
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 14th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Ontario NDP using Jack Layton's name
Yesterday the local NDP candidate was canvassing my building. I didn’t get a chance to talk to him because my life partner was the one that answered the door and she gave him a curt no thanks. I thought this was unfortunate because I dearly wanted to ask him about something on his biographical blurb (what the hell is a Ph.D in corporate responsibility and economics?). I did however get my hand o
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 14th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Ron Paul advert: more choices than Romney and Perry
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 13th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Civil Liberties and technology after 9/11
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 12th, 2011 | @freedomnation
The Politics of Xenophobia: the 2007 and 2011 Ontario elections
There is emerging an interesting similarity between the 2007 and the 2011 Ontario elections. In both elections one of the worst human reflexes, xenophobia, has been used to turn a relatively minor policy proposal into a central point of the electoral debate. In 2007 the Liberals argued that religious school funding would mean funding Muslim schools, which they subtly and not so subtly suggested wo
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 11th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Conservatives should be libertarians
A moral code held up by force rather than conviction is not a benefit to social conservative ideas.
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 9th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Obama's job plan won't work
Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute has written a nice summary of the bad ideas that can be found in Obama's new spending plan.A temporary payroll tax cut. This is not a tax cut at all because the president would “pay for it” with tax hikes later on. And if it’s temporary, it won’t encourage businesses to hire additional workers anyway.More federal infrastructure. When the federal gov
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 9th, 2011 | @freedomnation
How will the Conservatives say no to new spending?
Three weeks ago I wrote a post that argued that the Conservative Party will have trouble resisting the calls for more “stimulus” spending because they have lost the credibility to offer an alternative (i.e. conservative) perspective. It has become the accepted wisdom of Canada’s political class that deficit spending can improve the economy. This is despite the lack of credible evidence provi
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 9th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Video for yesterday's GOP debate
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 8th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Dalton McGuinty picking emotion over logic
Dalton McGuinty has “dared” Tim Hudak to go to London and “look the people in the eye” and tell them that he will cancel the government’s deal with Samsung to “create 16,000 solar and clean energy jobs.” The London mayor joined in on the taunt pointing out that London has an unemployment rate of 9.1%. It is this sort of appeal to emotion argument that makes me despair of politicians.
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 8th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Ron Paul vs Rick Perry
Yesterday I posted a video by Ron Paul's campaign pointing out that Rick Perry is an Al Gore liberal. Rick Perry's team pointed out that Ron Paul is too conservative for Reagan. Ron Paul's team responded that Rick Perry is too liberal for what is good for the country.Should be an interesting debate tonight.
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 7th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Dalton McGuinty's new post-secondary student subsidy is a bad idea
Dalton McGuinty has announced that if re-elected he will introduce yet another subsidy for people who want a post-secondary education. This is a bad idea. Even if the province was not drowning in red and could actually afford the cost of this program, it would still be a bad idea. It either endangers the very worth of Ontario’s post secondary education system or it simply wastes money.The core c
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 7th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Ron Paul: Rick Perry is an Al Gore supporter
This is by far the best advert I've seen from Ron Paul this year. They finally do away with that silly movie motif. This is a great advert because it is an attack ad with a positive message. Rick Perry is a liberal cheerleader and small government mavericks can win an election.(The Reagan worship in the GOP has reached silly heights the last couple of years, but I guess it makes sense for Ron Pau
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 6th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Increase in private health care spending not necessarily bad
The Centre for Living Standards has released a report warning that Canadians are at great financial risk because of the large increase in private health care spending. They argue that since health care spending is using up a greater share of an individual’s disposable income Canadians are at financial risk if they become sick or unemployed. Fortunately this conclusion is based on a fundamental m
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 6th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Ernie Eves says that he doesn't like democracy
Okay he didn’t exactly say that but that is what he meant. Ernie Eves, the former Premier that confused Magna International with the legislator of Ontario, made some snarling comments about Norm Sterling being replaced by Jack MacLaren as PC candidate in that riding. In case you aren’t familiar with the story: Mr. MacLaren and his friends felt that Mr. Sterling wasn’t representing thei
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted September 1st, 2011 | @freedomnation
Video: free trade vs protectionism
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 31st, 2011 | @freedomnation
Ezra Levant on Jack Layton's funeral
I didn't watch the funeral and so I can't judge it for myself, but a NDP partisan hijacking of the funeral is pretty consistent with everything else that has happened since Jack Layton's funeral.
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 31st, 2011 | @freedomnation
Why do men make more than women?
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 30th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Another interpretation of the words of Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis
Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis is in hot water. He is being accused of making a racist slur against the former Conservative candidate in his riding, Harry Tsai. Mr. Tsai is president of the Taiwanese Canadian Association of Toronto, an organization that recently called for Mr. Karygiannis to be fired as multiculturalism critic. Mr. Karygiannis’ response was to call Mr. Tsai and according to Mr. T
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 27th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Top 3 Health Care Policy Proposals (for America)
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 26th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Partisan Jack
Often when celebrities or well known business and political leaders pass away the family asks the public to honour the passing by giving a donation to a charity that was dear to the deceased’s heart. For Jack Layton the NDP (not sure how involved the family is with this) has asked that people give to a left-wing political organization that is being started by Ed Broadbent and appears to be model
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 26th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Failure of the electric car
Steve Lafleur talks to Ezra Levant on the failure of the electric car to take off.
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 25th, 2011 | @freedomnation
We are losing the war of ideas
Last Friday I wrote a post that argued that the Conservative Party has damaged the conservative movement when it comes to the debate between fiscal restraint and “stimulus” spending. By advocating for deficit spending in the 2009/2010 budget and then claiming that this budget was fundamental in saving the economy, the Conservatives have left themselves no room (or at the most a very little bit
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 25th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Government grants are bad for art in Canada
Incentives matter, always. This includes the Canadian music industry. What incentives are created by an industry completely dominated by government grants? Find out the answer by checking out this article written by my Volunteer colleague Peter Jaworski. And support a new voluntary way of contributing to the art by taking a look at the crowd sourcing method of the always wonderful Lindy.
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 24th, 2011 | @freedomnation
Note to CMA: the Canada Health Act is part of the problem
Canadian Medical Association Jeff Thurnbull has recently suggested that user fees for medical care should be discussed: All options should be on the table for financing an overhaul of Canada's health system - including the possibility of user fees, the outgoing head of the nation's largest doctors' group says. "We support the Canada Health Act. ... We believe that nobody should be denied
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 23rd, 2011 | @freedomnation
A patient health charter would not fix health care
A new survey says that the vast majority of Canadians support a notion of a “patient health charter.” Such a charter would promise services, set out “rights” and “responsibilities” of the patient, and possibly create a complaint mechanism. Basically it would amount to another promise to deliver health care services faster and better. The problem being that such a charter does not sa
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 22nd, 2011 | @freedomnation
Government running out of money
Every time I see the government in deficit I feel like I just got mugged by a gang of senior citizens.
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 19th, 2011 | @freedomnation
The Conservative Party has screwed itself and the movement
The early days of 2009 were crucial in Canadian financial, economic, and political history. Most people will remember the attempt by the opposition parties to form a coalition government at the end of 2008, but really it was the decision to return to deficit spending that is and will have a longer lasting effect. We can see the ripples of that decision not just in the fact that we are still in def
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted August 19th, 2011 | @freedomnation
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Baird faces scandalous accusations

Bob Rae to step down as MP

Canadian housing starts up nearly 14% in May

Tkachuk: Harbs Expense Total May be closer to 240k

Dalton McGuinty Resigns as MPP

The Arrival of the Surveillance State

Hudak On the Offensive over NDP support of Budget

NDP to Trudeau: Show us Your Expenses

Feds (Finally) Approve Pickering Airport

Trudeau willing to welcome back Mac Harb to Caucus





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