Last April, when gasoline prices were sky high, Premier Rodney MacDonald said this to reporters outside the provincial legislature.
“I think the most important thing we as a government can do, and all Nova Scotians can do, is to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles, to take up the opportunity for transit.”
The premier later objected to this headline [...]

The latest Fraser Institute report on corporate welfare in Canada arrives at a very appropriate time. The allegedly “Conservative” federal government is about to throw away $4 billion on propping up failing car companies and their unionised workers. Newfoundland and Labrador should also take note: Danny Williams has embarked on an arguably illegal [...]

I, for one, would like to hear more about the LaytonAway Program!
Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, Hamilton Spectator

Danny Williams’ grandstanding is contagious, apparently. Clem Tremblay, Mayor of Dalhousie, New Brunswick, wants his provincial government to seize a paper mill belonging to AbitibiBowater.
The New Brunswick government should follow the lead of Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams by expropriating the property of AbitibiBowater’s Dalhousie paper mill, according to the town’s mayor.
Dalhousie’s economy [...]

We haven’t heard much from Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams lately, but he’s in the news today.   It’s good to hear that he’s still his usual arrogant self.  Check out today’s CBC headlines:

AbitibiBowater may take legal action over N.L. expropriation of assets
‘We wish you well’: Williams to AbitibiBowater

The provincial government passed legislation authorising theft [...]

Last April, Marc Lebuis of the excellent Quebec blog Point de Bascule filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against Montreal Muslim imam Abou Hammaad Sulaiman Dameus Al-Hayiti. Imam al-Hayiti had written a book, published in Canada and available for download here (in French), containing nasty slurs against many groups in Canadian [...]

So says David Larter, executive director of the Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission. That is a startling admission for a bureaucrat in his position to make.
He needs to get with the programme: Hasn’t he read the script for defenders of Canada’s “human rights” commissions?   Our human rights commissions avoid adversarial procedures. Canada [...]

Last week, the BC “human rights” tribunal found that companies involved in building Vancouver’s Skytrain had discriminated against Latin American workers and ordered payment of compensation. After slogging through the 177-page decision, the Vancouver Sun’s Ian Mulgrew smells a rat.
The Latin American workers were paid the same wage scale as Canadian workers on the [...]

Cartoon: Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle-Herald

One Bernie Quigley, who is billed as a “pundit” at the The Hill’s Pundit Blog, seems to have the crazy idea that Canada is a republic.
The queen of England has shut down the Canadian Parliament. It should be her last official act on Canada’s behalf. That she has the right to do so gives clear [...]

Historian Michael Bliss has penned another incisive column on the dangers of the Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition.
The Bloc is not a political party like the others. Even though Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats may fight like cats, we understand that all these MPs are trying, whatever their delusions and ambitions, to serve the interests of Canada. The [...]

The Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition claims that, if it is not allowed to seize power, Canada’s economy is doomed.  After reading the coalition’s economic plan, McGill economics professor William Watson can’t believe it.
It’s all about … marketing boards?
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[W]e’re asked to believe it’s not about the political subsidies, it’s about the stimulus package, or lack of one. Here [...]

Failed prime ministerial candidate Stephane Dion was raving in the House of Commons again today.
“Why has the Prime Minister refused to act to put our economy back on the rails?”
He sounded the same theme in this evening’s out-of-focus address to CBC viewers. (CTV’s Lloyd Robertson sheepishly and apologetically signed off without showing it because [...]

Jeremy Akerman sat in Nova Scotia’s legislature as leader of the provincial NDP for ten years, but he is adamantly opposed to the Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition. Here is the full text of his letter in yesterday’s Halifax Chronicle-Herald.
My political sins are in full view for all to see: Fifteen years a member of the NDP [...]

The Chumir Foundation has posted videos of the Joseph Howe Symposium held at University of King’s College, Halifax, on 1 November. They can be viewed at the foundation’s website and at YouTube.
The series of videos covers only each speaker’s prepared remarks. I have sent an e-mail asking whether there are plans to post videos [...]