House Leader Peter Van Loan on committees
The New Democrats and the Liberals have raised concerns this past week over what appears to be a concerted push to move Commons committees – as much as possible - behind closed doors. This is what...
View ArticleYour tax dollars on display
The Daily Telegraph reports that Britain’s next budget will include a provision that, as of 2014, each taxpayer will be sent a detailed statement of how much tax they paid and what was done with the...
View ArticleBev Oda backtracks on travel expenses
International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda appears to have paid taxpayers back for more than a $16 orange juice and her stay at the Savoy. But she’s keeping her lips zipped over the details. In the...
View ArticleWhy Equalization is Bad, Part IV
It’s so complicated you just can’t follow the billions as the shells move around.
View ArticleJust how dumb are politicians?
Now there’s a well with no bottom, you may respond. Plausibly, given the latest news out of Britain about the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition’s failure to keep its promises. Yeah, yeah. Nothing...
View ArticleAs I was saying about Mali Part VI
Late last week we heard that the Canadian C-17 sent to Mali to help the French for a week-month will now stay for another month. Or something. Which may or may not be a good idea. But since we live in...
View ArticleWhere the grass is greener
Just possibly it’s a sign of greater openness that city officials in Chengdu, one of China’s vast number of horribly polluted cities, were caught spraying green dye on withered grass beside the roads...
View ArticleSwiny river
Authorities have now pulled more than 13,000 dead pigs out of the Huangpu river which supplies over a fifth of Shanghai’s drinking water. But as usual in Communist countries, there’s no problem at all....
View ArticleWD90 – new and improved version
In Question Period yesterday the Prime Minister said: By his own admission, Mr. Wright made a serious error. For that he has accepted full, sole responsibility. He has agreed to resign and he is...
View ArticleAnd we needed it
The decision by Alberta MP Brent Rathgeber (Edmonton-St. Albert) to leave the Conservative caucus is good news. Not primarily because he is right on the substance of the dispute, hostile amendments to...
View Article“Everyone had a good chuckle at your questions”
The government pulled together a press conference Thursday morning to share with the media all the great work they’re doing, helping victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. International...
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