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    • ONTARIO BUDGET BLUES

    It’s always a pleasure to go to Toronto on business, as I did last week for three days, and be reminded why we don’t like to go to Toronto on business for three days.

    Toronto loves Toronto in a way that puts the word ‘smug’ out of work.

    That is why it was so much fun to be there when the report by highly respected former federal public servant and later TD Chief Economist Don Drummond landed with such a shudder last Wednesday on the corner of both Bay Street, and main street.

    To recap: Eleven months ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty, knowing that his economic and fiscal forecasts were almost criminally demented, appointed a commission headed by Drummond to review the state of Ontario’s finances, with a mandate above all others to tell the truth, and oh, by the way, to do so after McGuinty’s Liberal government was safely re-elected in the fall of 2011.

    Tragically for the Ontario Liberals, Drummond did his job.

    DON’T RE-DO HISTORY, PLEASE

    Recent efforts to restore/rebuild the Bluenose sailing sloop ($15.5m???) got me thinking about another attempt to re-do the past… It has come to my attention that the National Battlefields Commission has decided to re-enact the Battle of the Plains of Abraham on, well, the Plains of Abraham, in Quebec City. (I had a Jewish classmate at Crestwood Elementary in Edmonton [...]

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    HERE WE GO AGAIN

    In February of 1998, Daniel Johnson, Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, announced that he was resigning. As a political event, what did that mean to me? Nothing. I was with my family in Disneyland, Anaheim, California, having left the Premier’s Office in the Alberta government a week earlier. But what did Johnson’s resignation mean to the national conservative movement [...]

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    DON’T DRINK AND DREAM

    I had a dream the other night. I was below .05 on the DreamScale, so I can’t be charged with semi-impaired dreaming. It was a dream about the upcoming summer of 2012, when Charlene and I had enjoyed some wine on the patio at Buon Giorno Italian Ristorante, and were heading home. Out of the blue – a checkstop. Should [...]

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    LOVE and the CBC

    Rod Love, former long-time Chief of Staff to Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, will be the co-host of a new weekly national radio show on CBC Radio One, beginning Monday, January 23rd. The show, entitled “Type A”, will be a weekly one-hour opinion-based show that examines aspects of Canada’s current economic malaise, and ways to recovery, through the perspective of business [...]

    The Bills Are Coming In!

    Welcome to 2012, the year that the bills for the Great Recession of 2008 start coming in. As usual, governments took the easy way out in 2008 when the crash hit, and their revenues dropped. Rather than adopt a prudent reduction in government spending, commensurate with their falling revenues, Canadian governments simply ran deficits, and piled on the debt, or in Alberta’s [...]

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