Category: Trade Deficit

Where Are Their Political Instincts?

  Apologies for so quickly returning to the same topic I’ve recently written about…  The more I think about it, the angrier I become regarding the terrible betrayal by the Liberal Party on the widely supported Bill that would have given Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta more seats in the House of Commons to better [...]

Friday December 10th, 2010 in Accountability, Canadian Politics, Democracy, Electoral Reform, The Economy, Trade Deficit, US Deficit/Economy | Comments Off

Where Is The Protest Over Potash…

  Is Canada over-centralized as you hear so often from Alberta, Quebec, The National Post and Bay Street? Nonsense, nonsense and double-nonsense. Every year, the other levels of government take in and spend much more than Ottawa.  And every year, the gap grows bigger. Here are new figures from Statistics Canada.  In 2009, the federal [...]

Monday September 13th, 2010 in Decentralization, Interest Rates, Potash, Poverty, Trade Deficit, Unemployment | Comments Off

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

Are we really over-taxed?

  As you know, if you read the Report on Business or the awful National Post, Canada is a badly-overtaxed country. Baloney. The latest OECD comparative figures show that of the 30 countries, 21 pay higher taxes as a percentage of GDP than Canada. Not exactly what you’ve read in your far-right newspapers is it? [...]

Sunday February 14th, 2010 in Taxation, Trade Deficit | Comments Off