Category: Canadian politics

  • McGuinty Says No to Inquiry

    From QMI Agency
    Premier Dalton McGuinty won’t call a public inquiry into police actions at the G20, he said Monday.


    “With five separate reviews under way, I think we are coming at it from a number of perspectives,” McGuinty said. “I’m going to let the reviews speak to that.”


    The Canadian Civil Liberties Association released its report into the actions of police and treatment of protesters during last summer’s summit, which involved the largest number of mass arrests in Canadian history.

  • Ontario Liberals musing About Introducing a Carbon Tax

    From Canadian Free Press
    Today, Jim Wilson, MPP Simcoe-Grey, warned Ontario families that there are three key indications that Dalton McGuinty will introduce a carbon tax for Ontario.

    “It is time for all of us to start to get comfortable with two words: Carbon tax. Without it, all these dreams of a green tomorrow are hallucinations.” (Glen Murray, Toronto Star, May 27 2007).


    “I have looked at increasing taxes in some areas. For example, I argued for moving toward more carbon taxation.” (Jack Mintz, The
    Agenda With Steve Paikin, February 23, 2011).

    fast forward to minute 949 in the video to hear the quote

     

  • Rendezvous with Destiny

    Rendezvous with Destiny is a documentary based on the biography of president  Ronald Reagan by Craig Shirley here is an in-depth interview with the author.

    This documentary  along with one produced by the History Channel puts the president’s achievements in historical context.

    with the passing of time  we realized that Reagan was not just a good president but he was one of the most influential leaders of the last half of the 20th century.