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Mr. Simpson thinks that the Senate is good for something, including their report on health care reform.

The Senate committee under Michael Kirby presented the honest report. It recommended a basic additional infusion of $5-billion into the system every year, plus some other spending. The less-than-honest report got much more attention. Prepared by former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow, it called for $6.5-billion in additional spending, plus an escalator clause that would further increase annual spending by more than the growth in the economy.

The Senate had the guts to say the money had to come from somewhere reasonable, whereas Romanow leaves the question up in the air by basing his funding on the artificially created surplus.

What did anyone expect from an NDP socialist?

Toronto finally approved the link to the island – for the third time. 

Let’s hope that the bridge actually gets built this time and we can actually have a decent, viable, and profitable airport.

Let’s not turn this expansion into another Spadina Expressway.

The mayor had said in his speech that expanding the airport would create 3,200 permanent jobs in Toronto, and trigger an order for 15 turboprop planes from Bombardier’s Downsview plant, which would restore the jobs of 1,200 laid-off workers.

But the bridge plan still faces hurdles. Allan Sparrow of Community Air, a coalition that has fought the proposal, said that “the bridge is not going to be built.”

Mark Steyn is online!

A favorite columnist.

We all know that Canada has become the UN’s obedient little servant in an effort to become the model UN country.  This may explain why Canada is leading its people like lemmings over the Kyoto cliff.  The Liberals must have read this document of Bogus Climate Statistics.

United Nations IPCC scientists blame human interference, not natural variation, for causing our changing climate, and manipulate the data to suit their arguments.

It seems the wheels are finally falling off the Chretien rickshaw.

The inept attempt at damage control by Ducros, aided and abetted by the Prime Minister himself, may turn out to be more revealing of the disarray in Jean Chr?tien’s office as it lurches from crisis to crisis during his long goodbye than the comment itself.

This retirement process is going to be very painful for the country.  Go now!

FOXNews.com reports that Ducros has finally quit.  Thank you American conservative media!

Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s communications director resigned Tuesday over a controversy caused by her private comment last week that President Bush is a moron.

The free love generation is firmly in charge, and now we are reaping the results of the laissez-faire, non judgemental social policies they sowed. 

1. Twenty-five per cent of teens who are sexually active live with an STD today. Between 12 and 19, half become sexually active.

2. Many will be carrying two or three STDs

3. Almost 50% of American black teens have genital herpes.

4. Herpes has skyrocketed 500% in the past 20 years. One in five North Americans carries herpes.

5. One in 10 teenage girls has chlamydia (an STD that can cause sterility) and half of all new chlamydia cases are diagnosed in girls 15- to 19-years old.

Whereas Miss America is scorned for preaching abstinence and being a virgin.

For evidence of that division, one need only look at the recent triumph of Erika Harold, 22, the new whip-smart, multiracial, Miss America, who announced after her crowning that she was a virgin and will use her year-long reign to encourage American teenagers to swear off sex until they’re married. First thing that happened, pageant officials ordered her not to talk publicly about sexual abstinence. Then the cultural left fell about foaming at the mouth, calling her statement “a terrible shock,” and people like pro-choice and safe-sex advocate Susan Wilson of Rutgers said, “I think the judges should take away her crown for lying.”

The Post has a good editorial on the Liberal’s latest set of phony numbers, ie. propaganda that Greenpeace of the Sierra Club would be proud of.

The federal Liberals are grasping at straws in a desperate bid to save the increasingly unpopular climate change deal they’ve promised to ram through Parliament by Christmas: Don’t like our job-loss estimates? Frightened by our calculations of lost GDP? Well, how about this set? No? Don’t fret, we’ll keep making them up until we find the estimates that get Kyoto passed.

The Canadian Blog has an interesting campaign to being back Mulroney.

I keep up my lonely quest to promote this guy as the solution to our problems in this country and NOBODY hears me. The PC’s are soon going to elect a new leader (if they can find one) and here they are…still fiddling around and fretting amongst themselves when the solution is right in front of them.

Personally, I voted for and like the man.  I don’t think he’ll come back, but I am sure he’d give the Liberals something to think about if he did come back.

Do we need any more proof that our anti-American PMO and its Quebecois staff are themselves morons? 

Opposition MPs called on Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien to fire a top aide today after she reportedly referred to U.S. President George W. Bush as “a moron.”

The sooner this clown gets off the world stage and allows someone who actually represents the majority of Canadians, the better for our relationship with our largest trade partner.

Blatchford writes that the media is essentially playing fast and loose with people’s lives, since it wants to be politically correct in the reporting of suspects.

To my knowledge, no one argues seriously that the use of skin colour in these descriptions—invariably obtained from the victims of crime or the witnesses to them—is gratuitous, irrelevant or malevolent. Do newspapers and radio stations know better? Will they soon be conducting their own investigations of crime?

Today there is a story of a murder, and the suspects are described as:

Police are looking for three young men.

What kind of useless description is that?  Can we not have approximate weight, height, and perhaps race - so we know what the hell we are looking for?

Political correctness is killing us.

This articles states that the cost of Kyoto is much more than the government states:

The federal government is underestimating the cost of implementing the Kyoto Protocol by as much as 30% in some sectors, an Industry Canada study says.

They’ve even been keeping the info quiet to suit their propaganda needs:

Although completed early in the summer, sources said the study has been kept under wraps because it contradicts the rosy economic picture painted by earlier federal government economic forecasts of the cost of implementing Kyoto.

The government is even trying to promote ethanol, which itself costs more than the government probably even calculates.

Again, the job losses will be staggering:

such as the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters organization, peg the cost of full implementation at 450,000 jobs in manufacturing alone, and a 3% decline in GDP.

Oh well…it was fun while it lasted… it good to know someone has a little pride left, and can resist making a comeback.

Brian Mulroney said yesterday he has no intention of returning to politics, despite reports of growing pressure within Conservative ranks for the former prime minister to take over the leadership of the struggling party.

Jonah Goldberg writes a good article on how Canada now follows the lead of the UN and not its mother country, the Britain. 

But the biggest problem on the horizon for U.S.-Canada relations is the fact that Canada now looks to the United Nations as its moral guide. For much of their history, Canadians saw the British Empire as their parent (the country was founded by loyalists after all). This often meant they were on the right side of some issues well before the United States was. They entered both World Wars earlier than their American brothers, and they were unified in their opposition to slavery without needing to settle the issue with a bloody civil war.

But now, the Jean Chretien government as well as Canada’s intellectual classes see the United Nations as the true moral authority. The examples are endless. After 9/11, Chretien all but declared that the United States deserved the attacks because it is too rich and arrogant.

The sad part is that Canada is slowly disarming, following the lead of the UN:

The clearest signal that the Canadians have embraced UN-ology is their unilateral disarmament. The Canadian military was once among the most formidable in the world. Today it is in danger of vanishing. Its navy is old, rusted and sinking. Its army is woefully underequipped and overworked. Its airforce is held together with wire hangers and Scotch tape. Canada, enthralled by the U.N., likes to say it is a “moral superpower” and a “nation of peacekeepers” not warriors. But among nations of the world, it ranks 37th and falling as a peacekeeper.

Zimbabwe, the nation no white nation dare critisize, is descending deeper into hell.

The government thugs continue to plunder those that can help them the most, with their twisted economic logic:

In the eastern border town of Mutare, Mr Mugabe’s militia, known as the “green bombers” because of their uniforms, raided most of the bakeries on Wednesday to force the price of bread down and succeeded.

They were greeted as heroes by poverty-stricken people buying bread at less than the going price. Yesterday the bakeries had nothing for sale.

The only thing that will save the innocent civilians left in Zimbabwe is an invasion: unfortunately, there is no international interest since there is nothing left in Zimbabwe worth saving (other than people, many indoctrinated).