This gaffe rivals John Turner in 1984
Brian Mulroney
David Frum: Trudeau was a disaster for Canada
Frum goes to town on the legacy of Pierre Trudeau. Pierre Trudeau took office at a moment when commodity prices were rising worldwide. Good policymakers recognize that commodity prices fall as well as rise. Yet between 1969 and 1979 – through two majority governments and one minority – Trudeau tripled federal spending. In 1981-82, Canada [...]
When do you stop spending?
Jim Flaherty said today that he would spend to defend Canada from another recession. Under questioning from opposition MPs, Flaherty said for the first time that the Conservative government would move in with another round of stimulus spending if the world economy suffers a double-dip recession. “We would obviously do what is needed” if there [...]
Column: There has to be more than tax cuts
My latest column in The StarPhoenix. I’ll add in some extra link later today but for now I need to get some work done for my other employer. Since the end of the Super Bowl, I have been following the National Football League lockout and the litigation surrounding it. I have concluded that the hard-line [...]
Christmas Gift Ideas for the Emotionally Distant Father
A friend of mine/arch-nemesis has drawn her father and father-in-law for this year’s Christmas celebration and demanded a Christmas gift guide for them. While I am generally compliant towards requests from friends who have incriminating stories about me, this one is a hard one as I don’t have a relationship with my dad * and [...]
Archives
Jason Kottke is writing about how the new Whitehouse.gov website doesn’t archive old Presidential websites. As I have written about before, the Canadian Prime Minister’s website does just as poor job of preserving the archives of Canadian Prime Ministers. While I was looking around online to see if I could find the archives of the [...]
