Doug Ford's initiative to make City Council in Toronto more efficient has generated all sort of prophecies of impending doom.
From whom? City councillors, of course. Twenty or more of these will have to go out and get real jobs.
Ford's experience with this council tells him that it has become a debating society that never gets things done because discussing issues endlessly is more important.
He's got that right. Nothing important in the rise of civilization has ever been credited to councils and committees. All evolutionary ideas originated in individual minds unimpeded by endless debate.
It wasn't a committee that discovered insulin. It was Doctors Banting and Best. The ballet Swan Lake originated in one mind--Tchaikovski's. As far as we know, no committees helped Leonardo da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa.
The steam engine was developed in a succession of solitary minds, including Watt, Trevethick, Stevenson, Newcomen, etc., each working on their own, without a committee in sight.
Our guess that Ford knows when to stop talking and start doing was accurate. And very refreshing to see in a modern politician.
Friday 27 July 2018
Thursday 19 July 2018
Trudeau's new Cabinet:
Is Trudeau's cabinet seat re-shuffle still sexually balanced?
There is still a ministry for the protection of the environment. Wow! That's a tall order. Imagine taking control of hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
And too late for Ontario, where perfectly functional steam generating hydro stations were bombed out of existence by the McGinty government so they could be replaced by perfectly unreliable windmills.
Also noted is a ministry for Women's issues and no ministry for Men's issues. Are there no men seeking political solutions for personal problems?
Feed-back on this one should be interesting.
There is still a ministry for the protection of the environment. Wow! That's a tall order. Imagine taking control of hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
And too late for Ontario, where perfectly functional steam generating hydro stations were bombed out of existence by the McGinty government so they could be replaced by perfectly unreliable windmills.
Also noted is a ministry for Women's issues and no ministry for Men's issues. Are there no men seeking political solutions for personal problems?
Feed-back on this one should be interesting.
Monday 16 July 2018
Maryam Monsef:
Maryam Monsef arrived in Canada in 1996 from either Iran or Afghanistan--exactly which, has yet to be determined to everyone's satisfaction--and now serves as Trudeau's minister of women's issues.
Boy, we can't get much more inclusive than that, can we?
Now, Monsef appears to be engaged in a verbal free-for-all with the Conservative minister-designate for women's issues. It's over reproductive rights--that's abortion in plain language--and Monsef seems fully in favor of women's rights to choose life or death for their babies.
Apparently, this fits in well with the feminist agenda, according to Monsef, who says it benefits all of Canadian society.
Exactly how abortions, hiring quotas and wage averaging might benefit market economics has yet to be explained, but members of militant special interest groups seem unperturbed by reality.
It's not Christianity that's failing western civilization. It's the degree to which weak-kneed politicians allow special interest gangs to set our policies.
So... how soon is Trudeau going to go trolling for more liberal votes by installing a ministry for Men's issues?
Boy, we can't get much more inclusive than that, can we?
Now, Monsef appears to be engaged in a verbal free-for-all with the Conservative minister-designate for women's issues. It's over reproductive rights--that's abortion in plain language--and Monsef seems fully in favor of women's rights to choose life or death for their babies.
Apparently, this fits in well with the feminist agenda, according to Monsef, who says it benefits all of Canadian society.
Exactly how abortions, hiring quotas and wage averaging might benefit market economics has yet to be explained, but members of militant special interest groups seem unperturbed by reality.
It's not Christianity that's failing western civilization. It's the degree to which weak-kneed politicians allow special interest gangs to set our policies.
So... how soon is Trudeau going to go trolling for more liberal votes by installing a ministry for Men's issues?
Sunday 15 July 2018
Sex Ed:
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has jumped in with corrections on the McGinty/Wynne foul-ups just as he promised, tackling the Hydro mafia and the Sex Education mob right from the top.
Right on cue, our left-leaning media scurried about gathering quotes exclusively from people who favored childhood sex indoctrination right from kindergarten on. The idea, it appears, was for parents to accept without question what the sexually indeterminate activists have been pushing over recent years.
Not even one parent of actual children in that age group was quoted on electronic media. It was all about adjusting attitudes to make sexual deviance more acceptable, starting with little children.
Some of the quotes from opposition NDP spokespeople were to the effect that Ford's move would suck sex education right back into the last century.
Has the way we reproduce changed recently? The heavy hitters among the Liberals and the NDP seem to think so. The proponents of the new sexual attitudes have done their best to bully weak-kneed politicians, both municipal and provincial, into accepting that. They, in turn, tried to sneak the sexual revisionism right past the parents into a rosy new future.
Doug Ford found that in the real world, most parents were not comfortable with what was being promoted. To his credit, he was quick to act upon those concerns.
Good for him. And good for us.
Right on cue, our left-leaning media scurried about gathering quotes exclusively from people who favored childhood sex indoctrination right from kindergarten on. The idea, it appears, was for parents to accept without question what the sexually indeterminate activists have been pushing over recent years.
Not even one parent of actual children in that age group was quoted on electronic media. It was all about adjusting attitudes to make sexual deviance more acceptable, starting with little children.
Some of the quotes from opposition NDP spokespeople were to the effect that Ford's move would suck sex education right back into the last century.
Has the way we reproduce changed recently? The heavy hitters among the Liberals and the NDP seem to think so. The proponents of the new sexual attitudes have done their best to bully weak-kneed politicians, both municipal and provincial, into accepting that. They, in turn, tried to sneak the sexual revisionism right past the parents into a rosy new future.
Doug Ford found that in the real world, most parents were not comfortable with what was being promoted. To his credit, he was quick to act upon those concerns.
Good for him. And good for us.
Sunday 1 July 2018
Ford's Cabinet:
Apparently, Doug Ford considers every cabinet member he appointed an unhyphenated Canadian.
No member in the new Conservative cabinet in Ontario is there because of sex, sexual inclinations, inclusivity, skin color, hiring quotas or belief. It would appear that they are all there because they are the best available re: education, experience, track record and whatever potential each portfolio requires.
In today's social consciousness, this is a radical concept. Not at all the norm.
As expected, the liberal media was quick to run around gathering selective quotes from the public to the effect that women and minorities are under-represented.
In their view, actual ability to do the job was less important.
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