Terminal Musings

As we’ve all heard, the auto bailout (in the US, Canada, and soon, Mexico) is going through. This is a bad move – and a very expensive one at that. You see, we’re being threatened with major economic repercussions should GM or Chrysler collapse, but we’ve not received any assurances that the money we’re doling [...]

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Is it Canadian to muddle along and assume that “everything will be OK”? Must be. How else can I explain the overwhelming opinion that Stephen Harper was right in proroguing Parliament to avoid defeat? This is not a time-out in a schoolyard; it is an action that denies the representatives we elected – our Members [...]

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When I returned from my trip I found a country very different from the one I’d left. In the few days I’d gone, Stephen Harper proposed changes to public-financing rules that would have bankrupted the opposition while continuing to line the pockets of his party. He released an economic plan so anemic one wonders if [...]

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