Category: Conservative politics

CBC To Be Investigated In The New Year

The sinking fortunes of Canada’s national broadcaster was confirmed on Tuesday with the news the House of Commons  will be investigating  CBC’s chronic noncompliance with several access to information requests. The only party that did not support this motion was the liberals. This does not excuse the fact that the Liberals  are probably setting themselves up to walk into an election ready wedge issue.

Brian Lilley has Much more of the dirty details of the corporations mismanagement of  your money. In the meantime  please don’t forget to support blogger Andrew Lawton in his time of need. To join the Facebook group [click here]

From Toronto Sun


Conservative, Bloc and New Democrat MPs all voted Tuesday in favour of having the Commons access to information committee study the CBC in the New Year.


“I wanted to make sure that if we are going to study this that we not only bring CBC executives but bring in a broader cross-section of individuals,” said Tory MP Paul Calandra who tabled the motion calling for the study.

Ontario’s Unaffordable Energy

From Toronto Star

Since becoming leader of the Ontario PC Party, I have travelled all over this great province talking to families, seniors and business owners about their rising hydro bills.
Whether I’m in Toronto, Timiskaming or home in Niagara, I am hearing similar stories everywhere I go. When the electricity bill arrives at people’s homes, it sits unopened for days because they know the bill only goes one way, and that’s up.
From smart meters, to the Green Energy Act, to the Samsung subsidy, electricity bills are skyrocketing. When you add in the impact of the HST and other rate increases, the annual cost of electricity bills for Ontario families is set to increase by another $732 per year by 2015, according to the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters.
Premier McGuinty is running Ontario’s hydro system in a way that is unsustainable. He’s handing out massive subsidies to preferential energy developers that are well above the market price for power. In the end, it’s you who pays the price on your hydro bills.
What do you think of Tim Hudak’s energy policy so far.?

 

Harper Rocks Out

The Tories were rocking around the Christmas tree tonight at their annual party. Even the Prime Minister got into the spirit by performing five of his favorite rock tunes.

The humanizing of  Harper is nice to see, it reminds Canadians that he has regular routes like most of us. To hear audio from the concert [ click here]

From Toronto Sun

After a day fending off opposition barbs in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper ditched his tie and played a little rock ’n’ roll in front of cheering MPs and political staff at the Conservative party’s annual Christmas party.


Harper led a four-piece band called Herringbone to sing and play four songs.


With Harper at an electric piano, the band led off with a cover of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and then followed that up with a cover of Scottish band The Proclaimers’ “I’m On My Way.”


Harper dedicated that one to Scotsman and senator, Doug Finley, the mastermind of Harper’s winning election campaigns who is recovering from surgery.

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Atlas Shrugged Coming to the Silver Screen

Atlas Shrugged the ground breaking novel by Ayn Rand is finally coming to the silver screen. The entertainment site big Hollywood has an exclusive insider’s view of the production [click here]. Hopefully this movie will give conservative libertarians something to cheer about in 2011.