Category: Social Spending

More Appalling Facts and Statistics

  A great letter in the Globe from Ken Dunham of Ottawa who quotes a spokesman from the Prime Minister’s Office as saying that “Our Government strengthened Canadian laws with the toughest anti-corruption legislation.” Would this include the disbarred lawyer who was sentenced to 18 months for theft who had been working in the PMO? [...]

Tuesday March 29th, 2011 in Child Care, Corruption, Guns, Nuclear Power, Social Spending, US Deficit/Economy, Unemployment, Women in Politics | Comments Off

EU Free Trade? / Decline of Big Oil / Dismal Social Spending

  Don Martin, in the National Post, writes “there’s a very high possibility that Canada would have dissolved in the 1970s or at least faced very serious disruption had Trudeau not been prime minister.” Surprising comment from a surprising source.  “After his death, polls christened Mr. Trudeau the best prime minister in history, with a [...]

Monday December 20th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, Free Trade, Oil, Poverty, Social Spending | Comments Off

US Income Disparity / Canada’s Disgraceful Child Poverty / No Thanks to a Common Security Perimeter!

  On November 1st the New York Times carried a column by their op-ed columnist Bob Herbert on the subject of inequality of income in the U.S.  It’s excellent, and much of what Herbert writes applies to what has been happening in Canada as well.  I’ll ask Jillian if she can provide a link. It’s [...]

Wednesday December 15th, 2010 in Child Poverty in Canada, Common Security Perimeter, Corporate Profits, Emigration, Health Care, Income Disparity, Social Spending, US Deficit/Economy, US Politics | Comments Off

Some Facts on the State of Canada, Canada Day 2010.

  Here is how it works, as I’ve explained before:  (1) We sell an important Canadian company (try Stelco for example) to non-Canadians. (2) They make a bunch of big promises about how they will expand employment, increase investment and production in this country. (3) Instead, soon after, they begin to shut everything down (so [...]

Thursday July 1st, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Corporations, Foreign Aid, Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, OECD Comparisons, Social Spending, The Economy | 1 Comment »

Tea Parties/Taxes/Sarah Palin

  Maclean’s new issue tells us that 42% of U.S. Tea Party supporters believe Obama is “doing many of the things that Hitler did” and 25% believe “he may be Antichrist.”  Paul Krugman says that Republicans have become “embarrassing to watch.”    As to why he hasn’t been even more critical: “It doesn’t feel right [...]

Saturday April 17th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Social Spending, Taxation, Trade Deficit, US Politics | Comments Off

Our terrible record compared with other OECD countries.

  Those of you who have read The Truth About Canada  know that large portions of the book were based on OECD, UN, IMF, Statistics Canada or other comparisons showing how Canada compares to other countries in a long list of economic, social educational and other areas. Here’s a bunch of updates, based on the [...]

Friday February 12th, 2010 in OECD Comparisons, Productivity, Social Spending | Comments Off