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.
Saturday, 4 May 2019
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.
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Embarassing Leadership:
Indian leader Amarinder Singh is reported to have viewed Trudeau's act of striking out references to Sikh extremism here in Canada as a solid contribution to international terrorism.
Obviously, over in India they do not approve of that kind of behaviour. Nor should we.
We will have to wait until the fall election to see how many Canadian voters think that sort of behaviour by our leadership candidates is okay..
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Liberal Fallout:
Coffee counter politicians are speculating on the potential of Liberal caucus dropouts Rayboult and Philpott being snapped up by the Tories or the NDPs now that they are on the loose.
Maybe not. All party decision makers are well aware of candidates in the past who could not be fitted into team politics. A political party is not a political party if it cannot work as a team.
The provincial Tories have Randy Hillier and an earlier dropout. Not too long ago, Parliament Hill had Belinda Stronach briefly. There were others, too easily forgotten to mention, who should never have gone ahead and got elected on a party ticket.
None of them ever did anything constructive or memorable with their actions before they faded into the footnotes of parliamentary lore.
The truth is, a political party--any political party--is viewed by the electorate as having one leader, a group of ministers and a truckload of back benchers. It could quite safely be said that they vote for the party, not the individuals.
Aspiring politicians should be prepared to think logically, not emotionally.
Maybe not. All party decision makers are well aware of candidates in the past who could not be fitted into team politics. A political party is not a political party if it cannot work as a team.
The provincial Tories have Randy Hillier and an earlier dropout. Not too long ago, Parliament Hill had Belinda Stronach briefly. There were others, too easily forgotten to mention, who should never have gone ahead and got elected on a party ticket.
None of them ever did anything constructive or memorable with their actions before they faded into the footnotes of parliamentary lore.
The truth is, a political party--any political party--is viewed by the electorate as having one leader, a group of ministers and a truckload of back benchers. It could quite safely be said that they vote for the party, not the individuals.
Aspiring politicians should be prepared to think logically, not emotionally.
Thursday, 4 April 2019
Aren't we Lucky?
Aren't we lucky that we have guys like Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts looking after our interests?
Up to and until about 10 years ago, climate science told us that we were in the process of emerging from a glacial period--an earth that looked more like a snowball a few million years ago. It was variously estimated that the area where Toronto now sits was under a sheet of ice about two miles thick. Its weight created the Niagara Escarpment.
Look what the media did with that.
"Wow!! Global warming!! Rising oceans!! Prepare to evacuate coastal cities!! Melting Arctic. What will the poor Polar bears do??"
Of course, nothing out of the ordinary was happening, and we still endured cold winters. So the brain trust at the UN morphed global warming into Climate change and helped launch a few video documentaries that are about as phoney as a $3 bill for us to view and lose sleep over..
But history is full of global warming and climate change. There is evidence of climate change in the rocks for everyone to see. And it all happened before the era of coal-fired hydro smokestacks and hydrocarbon spewing motor vehicles.
So, did this stop the planet-saving heroes and their cheerleaders from carrying on the scary propaganda? Were David Suzuki and Al Gore even paying attention?
Now we have Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts launching a sneaky new strategy--taxing Climate Change into submission. If they tax us enough, this will somehow stop millions of years of climate change dead in its tracks.
Should we be grateful? Unfortunately, we must withhold showing our gratitude until the fall election.
Up to and until about 10 years ago, climate science told us that we were in the process of emerging from a glacial period--an earth that looked more like a snowball a few million years ago. It was variously estimated that the area where Toronto now sits was under a sheet of ice about two miles thick. Its weight created the Niagara Escarpment.
Look what the media did with that.
"Wow!! Global warming!! Rising oceans!! Prepare to evacuate coastal cities!! Melting Arctic. What will the poor Polar bears do??"
Of course, nothing out of the ordinary was happening, and we still endured cold winters. So the brain trust at the UN morphed global warming into Climate change and helped launch a few video documentaries that are about as phoney as a $3 bill for us to view and lose sleep over..
But history is full of global warming and climate change. There is evidence of climate change in the rocks for everyone to see. And it all happened before the era of coal-fired hydro smokestacks and hydrocarbon spewing motor vehicles.
So, did this stop the planet-saving heroes and their cheerleaders from carrying on the scary propaganda? Were David Suzuki and Al Gore even paying attention?
Now we have Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts launching a sneaky new strategy--taxing Climate Change into submission. If they tax us enough, this will somehow stop millions of years of climate change dead in its tracks.
Should we be grateful? Unfortunately, we must withhold showing our gratitude until the fall election.
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Buying Houses:
Buying houses has never been easy.
Back in the days when a single detached house could be bought for about $50,000, I envied a fellow employee, an older guy, for the fact that he had purchased his 1200-sq ft brick bungalow, detached, a few years earlier, for $25,000.
After thinking about it, I realized that he bought his house when the average weekly salary was less than $100.
That was in the 1950s. Since then, our dollar has been devalued steadily through steady taxation. Every time the politicians increased taxes, everybody had to increase prices on their produce just to stay in business. And everybody needed more dollars to buy the same old goods and services.
That is how money is devalued. Extreme example of that process was the Weimar Republic in Germany following WWI. Unable to keep up with the punitive reparations taxation of the winning allies, the government started printing money.
A story was told about a hungry man who went to a store for a loaf of bread pushing a wheelbarrow full of money. When he wasn't looking, a thief grabbed the wheelbarrow, dumped the money and ran.
That probably didn't happen, but it might have.
About 50 years ago, I used to collect pennies in a large crock. Ten years earlier, coffee was 10 cents. Chocolate bars were a nickel. Gasoline was 15 cents a gallon as recently as the '70s.
The millennials whining that they cannot buy a house should know that nobody ever bought a house on their own when they were 19 years old. We all had to work, save, think it through and be prepared to sacrifice lifestyle before making that kind of investment.
Buying a home today is probably not more difficult than it's ever been when you factor in inflation. And while our politicians probably didn't get the printing presses rolling every time they needed money, they were quick to tax--all three levels of government.
The latest devaluation of our purchasing power is Trudeau's famous carbon tax on all provinces. While we don't have to get a wheelbarrow full of dollars to go to the store just yet, prices have jumped upward on everything we buy as industry tries to stay in business.
And yes, like all the other taxes, that tax has moved your plans to buy a house a few more years into the future.
Back in the days when a single detached house could be bought for about $50,000, I envied a fellow employee, an older guy, for the fact that he had purchased his 1200-sq ft brick bungalow, detached, a few years earlier, for $25,000.
After thinking about it, I realized that he bought his house when the average weekly salary was less than $100.
That was in the 1950s. Since then, our dollar has been devalued steadily through steady taxation. Every time the politicians increased taxes, everybody had to increase prices on their produce just to stay in business. And everybody needed more dollars to buy the same old goods and services.
That is how money is devalued. Extreme example of that process was the Weimar Republic in Germany following WWI. Unable to keep up with the punitive reparations taxation of the winning allies, the government started printing money.
A story was told about a hungry man who went to a store for a loaf of bread pushing a wheelbarrow full of money. When he wasn't looking, a thief grabbed the wheelbarrow, dumped the money and ran.
That probably didn't happen, but it might have.
About 50 years ago, I used to collect pennies in a large crock. Ten years earlier, coffee was 10 cents. Chocolate bars were a nickel. Gasoline was 15 cents a gallon as recently as the '70s.
The millennials whining that they cannot buy a house should know that nobody ever bought a house on their own when they were 19 years old. We all had to work, save, think it through and be prepared to sacrifice lifestyle before making that kind of investment.
Buying a home today is probably not more difficult than it's ever been when you factor in inflation. And while our politicians probably didn't get the printing presses rolling every time they needed money, they were quick to tax--all three levels of government.
The latest devaluation of our purchasing power is Trudeau's famous carbon tax on all provinces. While we don't have to get a wheelbarrow full of dollars to go to the store just yet, prices have jumped upward on everything we buy as industry tries to stay in business.
And yes, like all the other taxes, that tax has moved your plans to buy a house a few more years into the future.
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