Merry Christmas

I wish everyone at Blogging Tories a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2011 . On another note Posting at Tory Redux will significantly slowdown until the new year.

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A Festive Fantasy Interview with Premier McGuinty

Here is a mock interview with Dalton McGuinty to get the reader in a festive frame of mind.

From Christina Blizzard

PD: What do you mean the HST? How was that a highlight? Terri hated the HST. Every time she went to the hairdresser or the manicurist she got dinged another 8%.


I’ve been on the naughty list since July 1 for that one.


CB: Tell us about the G20. Whatever possessed you to pass that secret law, Premier Dad?


PD: Oh, come on. It wasn’t that bad. It’s not like we’d doubled your hydro bill over five years or snuck through outrageous eco fees on everything.


Now THAT would be worth taking to the streets about.


Besides, what’s the point of having civil rights in this country if the government doesn’t come in every now and then and arbitrarily impose martial law?


We need to crack a few heads to let those left-wing kooks know who’s the boss.


(At this point, the aide lunges at Premier Dad, tackling him to the plush broadloom).


A trickle of eggnog dribbles down Premier Dad’s chin as the aide vainly tries to gag him with a handful of candy canes and a glow in-the-dark Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.


Next year, Premier Scrooge, when it comes to year-enders, I have seven letters for you: SUN NEWS.

Update on Liberty Summer Seminar

I haven’t blogged about this much but here’s an update on the  liberty summer seminar and the Jaworski’s .


From Tim Mak


Every year, Peter Jaworski and the non-profit Institute for Liberal Studies organize a gathering, the Liberty Summer Seminar, to celebrate individual liberties. Attendees from across North America have flocked to the Jaworski family’s home in Orono, Ontario over the last ten years to hear live music, meet with old friends and listen to libertarian-themed lectures.


But after nine years without conflict, a complaint is now threatening the event, and Jaworski’s parents face a fine of up to $50,000.


Before the event this year, health department officers contacted the Jaworskis and told them that their kitchen and cleaning facilities were not up to code. The event had to be catered. At great expense, they catered this year’s seminar.


Two weeks after this year’s event, the Jaworskis were charged anyhow – with running a commercial conference center on land zoned agricultural. This despite the event being organized by a non-profit, and, well, basically resembling a large BBQ.


It has since been revealed that the complaint which launched this entire mess was made by a woman who lived a 24 minute drive away from the seminar – which rules out the traditional disputes over noise and traffic. Peter Jaworski tells FrumForum that his actual neighbors haven’t complained about either.


Instead, the complainant hosts weddings and wedding receptions – a field of business that the Jaworski family had recently announced they were going to enter. Jaworski tells FrumForum that the likely motive behind the complaint was that the businesswoman was trying to place barriers to competition.


The irony of the whole situation is not lost on the younger Jaworski. Not only is a celebration of freedom being nixed by overbearing bylaws, but Jaworski tells FrumForum that his family fled Communist Poland in 1984 to escape a government which refused to – among other things – guarantee the right to assemble peacefully.

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Margaret Thatcher on Individual Freedom

Margaret Thatcher spoke with a clarity and forcefulness that you do not see in many politicians today. In this clip she highlights  how the state is in the business of promoting its interest ahead of the individual. Her remarks are more pertinent today in the era of the nanny state where governments are  worried about what you eat, and teaching your kids more about  sex then the ABCs.