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Ottawa’s Indian policies stick with tried and tested failure
Friday, August 24th, 2012
9 August 2012
The Indians did not give up being Indian, as bureaucrats expected they would, for the simple reason that they did not want to. Over and again the principal outcome of top-down, Ottawa-knows-best paternalism was another generation of consternated policy wonks and impoverished reserves whose inhabitants nonetheless resisted outside pressures to cease and desist all things Indian… to introduce voluntary fee simple property ownership to Indian reserves… is one step’s remove from conducting the discussion entirely over the heads of the people affected…
Tags: economy, housing, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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A beginners guide to conservative philosophy
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Mar 15, 2012
For the conservative, society is the word we apply to aggregated individuals… Conservatives want to remove limitations on free, responsible and productive citizens. To achieve this end… There must be stability and order, so that the individual is protected from the harmful actions of others; this calls forth the rule of law. The rule of law, set forth and enforced by the state, must be as extensive as is necessary for order, and as limited as necessary for responsible individual freedom… Conservatives, in other words, have a rather pessimistic view of human nature and the potential of human beings to evolve.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, featured, ideology, poverty, tax
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