Full Calendar

Suddenly, 2010 is looking to be a very full year. Canada is hosting the Olympics, the G8 and now the Queen is coming for a sleepover. When will we find time for an election, with all of that going on?

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Is This The End Of Rico?

God, I hope so. The big speculation now is about whether the "secret program" was this secret program. Will Obama's DOJ make a move against Cheney? I doubt it, but as I said, I live in hope.

Update: Today is a good day to be optimistic.

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Stephen Harper, Economist

From the Globe:

Reguly: Do you regret cutting the GST now?

Harper: No, not at all.

Reguly: No?Harper: No, it's ... First of all, I believe cutting all taxes is good policy, okay? I... I'm of the school that... You know, there's two schools in economics on this, one is that there are some good taxes and the other is that no taxes are good taxes. I'm in the latter category. I don't believe any taxes are good taxes.

Harper is from the don't tax but spend school of economics. He believes the way to build a prosperous nation is to not to pay cash up front for goods and services through taxes, but to borrow heavily from Chinese investors. The way Steve sees it, this strategy has worked so well for the United States, that we would be fools not to get a piece of that action for ourselves.

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Meanwhile

Our nuclear industry is in meltdown (no pun intended). You are doing a heckofa job Steve.

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OOOkay

Since Mr. Harper has called raising taxes "dumb", I think he owes Canadians an explanation of what programmes he intends to cut, to wipe out the structural deficits, his "smart" tax cuts have created. And before the next election please. Or, perhaps deficits don't matter.

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Just Thinking

Since Canada is to play host to the next G8 Summit, next June and the Olympics will be held next February, the window for a federal election before fall 2010 is very small indeed. The question is, will the opposition have the guts to pull the trigger this fall? If I had to guess, I would say Harper is safe until the end of next year, when other excuses will crop up and "no one" will want an election.

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Irony Watch

Prime Minister Harper slammed the media for reporting on an "unsubstantiated story" and then attacked Michael Ignatieff, based on an unsubstantiated story.

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