More bright moves in the works in Alberta.
Jason Kenney thinks a wage minimum reduced from what the previous NDP administration decreed will allow business owners to hire more kids looking for work for the first time.
That's another logical conclusion by the newly-elected administration. The NDP argument that $13.50 is not a living wage is illogical in the sense that it is not supposed to be a living wage. Kenney sees it as an entry-level wage for people living at home and looking for a first job.
Kenney is quoted as saying that it is better than no wage at all when small business cannot afford to hire at the $15 minimum wage.
Tuesday 28 May 2019
Monday 20 May 2019
Good News::
Good News from the Province of Alberta.
While the Liberals on Parliament Hill are trying their best to tax human-induced climate change out of existence, the tech industry in Alberta is putting zero-emissions vehicles to the test according to reports.
Researchers are currently running transport trucks powered by electricity between Calgary and Edmonton. Normally powered by smoke-belching Diesel engines, the tractors use electricity that does not come from lithium/ion capacitors like all the cars. It is generated on-board from fuel cells that convert hydrogen fuel. The only emission is clear, pure water.
Now, the only problem is how to generate hydrogen with a minimum of emissions.
The same problem exists with all electric vehicles, whether charged by hydro or hydrogen. Power still has to be generated with minimum cost to the environment if we want clean energy. The Alberta experiment makes hydrogen from natural gas. Either way, it is still a lot cleaner than smoke-belching Diesel.
This is a problem that is going to be solved by science and technology, not by single-minded Liberal politicians levying punitive tax loads on industry and working people.
While the Liberals on Parliament Hill are trying their best to tax human-induced climate change out of existence, the tech industry in Alberta is putting zero-emissions vehicles to the test according to reports.
Researchers are currently running transport trucks powered by electricity between Calgary and Edmonton. Normally powered by smoke-belching Diesel engines, the tractors use electricity that does not come from lithium/ion capacitors like all the cars. It is generated on-board from fuel cells that convert hydrogen fuel. The only emission is clear, pure water.
Now, the only problem is how to generate hydrogen with a minimum of emissions.
The same problem exists with all electric vehicles, whether charged by hydro or hydrogen. Power still has to be generated with minimum cost to the environment if we want clean energy. The Alberta experiment makes hydrogen from natural gas. Either way, it is still a lot cleaner than smoke-belching Diesel.
This is a problem that is going to be solved by science and technology, not by single-minded Liberal politicians levying punitive tax loads on industry and working people.
Sunday 12 May 2019
Deep in the Heart of Taxes:
It is important for us to understand that every time the politicians raise our taxes, they get to spend a little more of our money. That's money we earn through our own effort, but do not get to spend.
Voters with a leftward list in their political postures will argue that this is okay, probably because they are either unemployed or planning to become so as soon as their guy is elected.
One has to wonder at the thought processes of leaders like Justin Trudeau and Andrea Horwath whose political philosophy appears to be to tax industry out of existence because they make too much money, apparently leaving too little for the employees (read voters).
The truth is the opposite. Industry provides jobs. It's the politicians that grab an ever-increasing share of the paycheck, sometimes on the flimsiest of excuses, like preventing the climate from changing.
Since no industry means no jobs, what exactly is the next move? Is it to put all industry in the hands of the politicians? That's been tried before by various socialist and communist governments and found to be highly unproductive. Politicians and their bureaucrats make lousy industrialists.
Justin Trudeau's carbon tax will put the government's hands still deeper into the pockets of working people on the ridiculous notion that they can do something about the earth's climate.
Voters with a leftward list in their political postures will argue that this is okay, probably because they are either unemployed or planning to become so as soon as their guy is elected.
One has to wonder at the thought processes of leaders like Justin Trudeau and Andrea Horwath whose political philosophy appears to be to tax industry out of existence because they make too much money, apparently leaving too little for the employees (read voters).
The truth is the opposite. Industry provides jobs. It's the politicians that grab an ever-increasing share of the paycheck, sometimes on the flimsiest of excuses, like preventing the climate from changing.
Since no industry means no jobs, what exactly is the next move? Is it to put all industry in the hands of the politicians? That's been tried before by various socialist and communist governments and found to be highly unproductive. Politicians and their bureaucrats make lousy industrialists.
Justin Trudeau's carbon tax will put the government's hands still deeper into the pockets of working people on the ridiculous notion that they can do something about the earth's climate.
Saturday 4 May 2019
Easy Exposure:
It seems the PCs are pulling the same advertising error that got young Trudeau elected the last time: free exposure.
The ad showing Justin Trudeau linked in a negative image with Donald Trump must surely have been dreamed up by closet Liberals.
Wouldn't the Tories be better off with full facial shots of PC leader Andrew Scheer telling viewers what he intends to do to try to correct the current administration's major goof-ups?
Scheer needs all the visual exposure he's not about to get for free from the left-wing media. They're too busy trying to put a positive spin on Trudeau's on-going blunders.
The ad showing Justin Trudeau linked in a negative image with Donald Trump must surely have been dreamed up by closet Liberals.
Wouldn't the Tories be better off with full facial shots of PC leader Andrew Scheer telling viewers what he intends to do to try to correct the current administration's major goof-ups?
Scheer needs all the visual exposure he's not about to get for free from the left-wing media. They're too busy trying to put a positive spin on Trudeau's on-going blunders.
Friday 3 May 2019
Herd Mentality:
Mob behaviour on the front lawn of Queen's Park has drawn the attention of people who have no time to fall into line behind rabble rousers with bullhorns.
Nobody paid much attention when left-wing leader Andrea Horwath and Union boss Sam Hammond herded school teachers and children together to protest before the legislature. That sort of behaviour gave CBC and CTV cameras something to record as filler material for bad news days.
But when hooded and masked anarchists trotted out a wooden guillotine and began to vandalize the architecture at Queen's Park with spray paint, it was judged to be a bit much, even for left-wing loonies.
Premier Doug Ford has indicated that such tactics will not work. Work to correct years of mindless fiscal abuse by the previous administration will continue being prioritized.
Nobody paid much attention when left-wing leader Andrea Horwath and Union boss Sam Hammond herded school teachers and children together to protest before the legislature. That sort of behaviour gave CBC and CTV cameras something to record as filler material for bad news days.
But when hooded and masked anarchists trotted out a wooden guillotine and began to vandalize the architecture at Queen's Park with spray paint, it was judged to be a bit much, even for left-wing loonies.
Premier Doug Ford has indicated that such tactics will not work. Work to correct years of mindless fiscal abuse by the previous administration will continue being prioritized.
Wednesday 1 May 2019
Free Speech Denied:
Apparently, Senator Lynne Beyak is being denied her right to speak her mind by an overly-zealous ethics committee on Parliament Hill.
She is being censured for stating what should be obvious to anyone who has been following the evolution of events related to the aboriginal mission schools.
Apparently, Parliament Hill's ethics gurus feel that Sen. Beyak has gone too far in stating what she thinks of how aboriginal children have been handled. They want to re-programme her to see things more in line with modern group-think..
It seems Beyak showed concern that the media tended to ignore mission school graduates who took what they learned there and went ahead and made a success of their lives..
It seems the media, as is usually the case, concentrated on all the sensational negatives and ignored the less controversial positives when it came to mission school graduates.
The fact that there are more aboriginal offspring in social care today than there were in the residential schools is what probably prompts Sen. Beyak's concerns, as well it should.
It would appear what needs censuring is not Sen. Beyak's thoughts, but the attitudes of members of that parliamentary ethics committee who tend to behave like immature university kids who accept free speech only when they agree with what is being said.
Canadians who grew up with the understanding that free speech was the norm in our democracy would probably see nothing wrong with Sen. Beyak's concerns.
Similarly, they would view nothing right in the behaviour of ethics committee members Raynell Andreychuk and Serge Joyal. This pair seems badly in need of re-education as to the definition of Free Speech or have their asses booted out the door on Parliament Hill.
Let's not wait until the fall election.
She is being censured for stating what should be obvious to anyone who has been following the evolution of events related to the aboriginal mission schools.
Apparently, Parliament Hill's ethics gurus feel that Sen. Beyak has gone too far in stating what she thinks of how aboriginal children have been handled. They want to re-programme her to see things more in line with modern group-think..
It seems Beyak showed concern that the media tended to ignore mission school graduates who took what they learned there and went ahead and made a success of their lives..
It seems the media, as is usually the case, concentrated on all the sensational negatives and ignored the less controversial positives when it came to mission school graduates.
The fact that there are more aboriginal offspring in social care today than there were in the residential schools is what probably prompts Sen. Beyak's concerns, as well it should.
It would appear what needs censuring is not Sen. Beyak's thoughts, but the attitudes of members of that parliamentary ethics committee who tend to behave like immature university kids who accept free speech only when they agree with what is being said.
Canadians who grew up with the understanding that free speech was the norm in our democracy would probably see nothing wrong with Sen. Beyak's concerns.
Similarly, they would view nothing right in the behaviour of ethics committee members Raynell Andreychuk and Serge Joyal. This pair seems badly in need of re-education as to the definition of Free Speech or have their asses booted out the door on Parliament Hill.
Let's not wait until the fall election.
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