As Conservative as a Liberal

Despite all of the bull that the CPC has put out on the concept of personal freedom and responsibility (eg.: a non-intrusive nanny-state, ala conservative policy), it's a shame to see the health minister Tony Clement, waste $64 million on a drug policy that is mainly mis-information , while pandering to big pharma.

Worse, his article in the National Post establishing the reasons for the policy include the ever-so-liberal statement: "In the absence of clear advice from government, young people often receive their information from the worst sources:....."

Curiously, no parents, teachers, or responsible peers exist in this world of government.

This is how national policy gets made: by pandering to votes from a bunch of passing puritans from the 905.

Way to go Ontario - you set the national agenda. Again. And again.

And please government, give me a clear message so I'll know what to type next. I am so very lost without you.

Healthcare

Given the usual 'man left in hospital hallway for 3 days' stories, Britain has been using ambulances to stow patients - to avoid triggering wait time guarantees. Sound familiar? Here is a good rundown.

This will never surprise me.

Because price is the only signal that permits a market mechanism to work.

In a price controlled, service rationed environ, there is no signal to expand or contract supply.
Combine this with two immutable truths: people are rational economic beings who operate in their own best interests, and, blind adherence to ideology kills people.

And that ideology will always lead to this very outcome.

The puss-i-fication of Canada began as the victim culture expanded to include everyone being a victim of circumstance beyond their control. Whether apologizing to aggrieved persons for things that happened decades, or centuries ago, this action reinforces the notion that we are not personally responsible for our own selves.

Thus...'please government! make it better for me!' expands into every corner of our lives, reducing choice, limiting personal growth, and denying the individual self determination by using choice.

Politicians get along with this perfectly well, because it is on their own self interest to have dependants, and expanding budgets. Little they do is aligned to improve the nation or its' people - their actions are to build a new (dependant) constituency.

Because, at it's bottom, a politician without a budget is nothing.

It ain't the Cons, Libs, or Moonbats that will save and inspire a nation. It is its' people. And ours have been fed the pablum for decades. We are doomed to mediocrity, and to remain an indecisive socialist backwater forever more.
Despite the platitudes and bull that comes from politicians, they'll screw you in a heartbeat if it is in their self interest.

Give up hope. Canada is cooked. And as your aging, loved ones get substandard - even criminally negligent care - take comfort in your heart that the single payor will not change, except for those wealthy enough to make it happen.

Whether the Friends of CBC, the Friends of Medicare, and the countless leftists working diligently in the regional health boards, city halls, and school boards, these ghouls will ensure your freedom is diminished, your hopes dashed, and the system will tithe itself enough cash to stay viable, and maintain continuity. Because, these people have nowhere else to go, they are the tape worm within the animal.

Whether health, multi-culturalism, post secondary education, civil service, etc., we have paid the price for emulating the 19th century English post industrial revolution doctrine of the left. A communism cloaked in egality.

The ultimate price paid by a nation that did not seek and achieve a revolution. And we will forever pay for not declaring ourselves a 'free' people. Think of that next time you pay fealty to our foreign monarch.

Sucker.

On the Other Hand

Biofuels have been heralded as a way for us energy hogs to reduce fossil fuel consumption, reduce total emissions, & provide alternative markets for farmers.

It's a load of bull.

Virtually every benefit and reason held out by government and industry why biofuel is a better energy source, is false.

The UK is ahead of the curve on this, since citizens there take time to inform themselves on the topics of the day, and politicians aren't of the sniveling Canadian variety.

Unlike manufactured lies about polar bears via Al Gore, this article details a very real - and tragic story of man's impact upon their environment.

The Head Fake

Canada's New Government looks more like Canada's Old Government everyday, happily doling out billions of taxpayer cash to every corporate welfare case who has a connected lobbyist, and a hat in their hand.

And Canada's New Government is now getting better at the 'ol one-two punch of communications strategy: the head fake.

Here, our Prime Minister assures a broad audience that no, the Conservatives are different when it comes to doling out pork to industry, but in the very same week, a story with less national coverage is put to more focused group - the panhandlers themselves.

At first pass, the partisan will have their belief reinforced that yes, Conservatives are different than Liberals: they live to the ideals they purport. While on the side, they're whispering to the locals that the first announcement is not really what they meant.

And presents us with a bald faced lie that Canada's Old Government did so much of.

Always on your dime.

Economics 101 - Different but Equal

Supply always ends up equaling demand - according to economics. With the marginal supplier or consumer being a point of pricing for the rest.

With a willing Indian Industry constantly ready to consume taxpayer cash as fast as its' collected, perhaps it's time to think that maybe, just maybe, government should not treat Canadians differently because of their race.

While the Indian Industry

churns along, you'd think something intentionally created to address differences in educational outcomes could end up such an abject failure.

Despite thousands of bureaucrats, lawyers, policy contributors, and politicos, something as sad as this occurs in Canada - despite the wealth and privilege we enjoy.

It speaks volumes about Canada's current approaches to aboriginal affairs - as much as this detailed, yet confusing and myopic stance perpetuates.

It will achieve nothing until fundamental changes in policy occurs.

Given the amount of bureaucrats and glad handers that exist in the 'industry', nothing will change for a good, long, time.

They're making out ok, y'know.

I have an idea...

We'll sue!

In the finest Canadian tradition, taxpayers have to sue to ensure their dollars are used prudently.

Well.

It's certainly an improvement from 14 years ago, where a billion bucks of your cash was spent on nothing, but to replace the same airships 5 years later, at the same cost.

Canada has a sad history of well connected billionaires running the place. It's great to see pressure out there to change it.

But it's bittersweet knowing we need the courts to ensure value for cash from the politicians. And we still get to foot the tab - to find this out.

An optimist would suggest times are changing...

Trainee of the Month: Winner for January....

Our Conservative member for Parliament: Mr. Gary Lunn.

Not content to let things go on autopilot, this Trainee wrote a letter demanding inaction from the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

But why Trainee of the Month? Isn't this just a political dust up?

No. Because it threatened 60% of the world's diagnostic testing with radioactive isotopes, and has restarted a crappy, underfunded Model T of a reactor.

Because Gary had the position of Resources Minister for two years, and had every opportunity to get his Trainee head around the fact that persistent problems has swirled around AECL for at least 10 years.

So, while this guy bags some $225k per year, he also has a staff of 12 burning over $1.2 million a year - offering a pleasant 37.5 hour workweek for those Conservatives connected enough to slip into a minister's patronage post. As well, his operating budget has enough room to park a semi-trailer in.

And in the two years this gerbil has been running the place, he never thought to ask what the Auditor General has had to say about it before he got there? Or his staff?

Please.

This Trainee is well deserving of the badge - one will be sent on it's way with an official "Trainee of the Month" Certificate of Achievement.

Way to go Gary!

The Trainee of the Month Award!

is now officially launched.

This award will go to the Trainee of the Month - as determined by our selection committee - me.

While it's not easy to obtain a nomination, let alone the actual winning of the award, only those members of our government that openly and above all others prove it doesn't matter what you know before being put in charge of something that offers both responsibility, and the chance to spend buckets of your taxpayer cash on whatever seems right at the time.

Like being next in line for the new kid on the till at Burger King, you'll be assured the Trainee will ensure you won't get the right change, the right order, and they're guaranteed to forget to check if the fries have been made in the last week.

The award will be presented to those who have the right connections, appearance, and ability to bag cash for their political party. It reveals that anyone can indeed be put in charge of something far beyond their expertise and capability.

Winners will be sent an official 'Trainee' badge and a proclamation of their achievements, and reasons for obtaining such a distinction.

To start, an honorable mention goes to Alberta's own Jim Prentice, the brainchild of the 'Trainee' award.

Jim is a guy who started out in the Indian Industry, and was put in charge of a $19 billion dollar portfolio shoveling your cash out to every connected corporate welfare case with the right lobbyist working the street.

Indeed - his first action was to butcher the DCM, cowing to lobbyists and insiders first without thought or consideration of what he was actually doing.

Oops!

Thank you Jim. You've made this award come to life.

Ends and Means

The Post ran an editorial last week, critical of the Calgary Health Region's heavy hand of regulation.

In response - like anyone who talks over you - this wet-nurse never does address the issue of freedom of choice or action by individuals - aside from like, trans-fats are bad - y'know?

Sadly, the actions are that of too many bureaucrats to not tackle all of the good in the world they need to do. As well, it doesn't hurt to be seen actually doing something when you can't actually run a multi-billion dollar health region.

But follow his argument further, and ask why other equally pressing public health issues are not so vigorously chased.

This is always the case if the action has little visible impact to consumers. Any complaints will be typically from business - a crowd for whom the public in general has little sympathy for.

The bureaucrats went after smokers first, because, they are low hanging fruit. Now the bullseye is moving on to the fat one and their lifestyle habits.

To them, ends will always justify means.

You might think I exaggerate.

But when mandated exercise becomes de rigeur, and obese people become as socially ostracized as smokers are now, you'll know. It's coming.

A Magic Trick

"I think that we've lost a little bit of the human touch"

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j19yccb8DQWBOdyEzW0ZTrxfUn4A


How fast can a death incited by 4 poorly trained officers from a corrupted and politicized militia be....

(POOF!)

...turned into an additional $1.2M in airport taxes to provide 'security' at the airport?

(POOF!)

Pretty darned fast it seems.

The politicians and 'those esteemed members' of high rank in the political dumping grounds of Airport Authorities grow their budgets with ease.

Nod your head, and get out your wallet. And congratulations to the bureaucrats. They are fufilling their role with initiative and drive.

The public and mass media are performing their role by not saying a word.