Posted on 31 October 2011. Tags: CBC, Crown Corporations, Janice Kennedy, Ottawa Citizen, rob ford
The following Letter to the Editor was published in the Ottawa Citizen. It was a response to this Janice Kennedy column: Dear Sir/Madam: Columnist Janice Kennedy claims the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation “belongs to us – all of us”. (“CBC belongs to Rob Ford, too”, October 29.) Really? If something truly belongs to me, doesn’t that [...]
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Posted in Free Speech, Private Property, Taxes
Posted on 02 September 2011. Tags: budget, Crown Corporations, fiscal conservatism, Gerry Nicholls, Greece, Heritage Canada, James Moore, national citizens coalition, privatization, Stephen Harper, Taxes
Sometimes what looks like an imperceptible change can be important if it signals a turning point and a new direction. Fiscal conservatives have been looking for a new direction from the federal government ever since Harper was elected prime minister in 2006. They cringe that program spending for the year ended 2010 was up 17.8 per [...]
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Posted in Featured, General, Government Waste, Politics of Politics