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Monday, March 7th, 2011
March 7, 2011
The welfare state, Prof. van Creveld said, peaked in 1977, when governments realized the only way to expand programs was to pay for the expansion with borrowed money… the welfare state was effectively destroyed by its own success… “The shrinking of the state,” he said, “will affect every living person, producing upheavals as profound, and probably as bloody, as the upheavals that propelled humanity out of the Middle Ages.” The state responded by swapping sovereignty for economic growth… It adopted free-market economics to generate faster growth – and to capture more tax revenue. It began to break its promises.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology
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Friday, January 7th, 2011
Jan. 7, 2011
The GST helped improve the competitive position of Canada’s economy. It proved to be a hardy source of revenue for the federal government. It also allowed the lowering of personal and corporate taxes. And a GST tax credit helped to cushion the blow for low-income citizens…. it encourages savings and investment… Today, no political party and no economist would wish to return to pre-GST days, bringing back the 13-per-cent manufacturers’ sales tax, an export- and job-killing tax.
Tags: budget, ideology, tax
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
October 12, 2010
Guilt by association. It’s a hallmark of the modus operandi, a cheap instrument of attack politics that tarnishes the image of all Conservatives. The Progressive Conservatives of old would not have put up with it. Those Tories always had a right-wing cabal that manifested a prejudice and narrow-mindedness, like some U.S. Republicans. But that faction was always very much in the minority… the merger of the two conservative parties in 2004, more a Canadian Alliance takeover than a merger, gave them the prominence of place they enjoy today.
Tags: ideology
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Aug. 26, 2010
… the party’s hard right now appears, with a few policy exceptions, to have assumed control of the agenda. And that agenda is about keeping out boat people, letting in Fox News, building new jails, reviewing affirmative action, killing the gun registry, playing down climate change, revamping the census and giving more voice to social conservatives… The garrison party, as it’s sometimes called, no longer has policy debates wherein dissenters have a chance to air their views. The role of the party’s rank and file is not to develop policy but to raise funds and tear down opponents.
Tags: ideology
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
NationalPost.com – News&Sectors – Canadian Banks: A better system
Published: Friday, April 03, 2009. Theresa Tedesco and John Turley-Ewart, Financial Post
Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, neatly summed up this week what a growing number of financial leaders are saying about Canada’s banks: “Our system is better.”
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
TheGlobeandMail.com – Life/Health – Disabilities not a reason to send a person to ‘jail’
April 2, 2009. ANDRE PICARD
On Tuesday night, on the grounds of the Ontario legislature, a group of community-living activists and former residents of institutions gathered for a candlelight vigil.
They were celebrating a historic moment in the evolution of health and social-welfare systems that occurred when, on March 31, Ontario closed the last three large institutions for people with developmental disabilities.
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