Reading Time: 4 minutes Clinics, pharmacies and specialists continue to deny services to refugees and refugee claimants, based on the assumption they’re not covered by IFHP
Tag: Federal politics
The Meech Lake Accord and the destruction of a political party
Reading Time: 3 minutes Brian Mulroney’s insistence on crafting constitutional change went from master stroke to the death of the Progressive Conservative Party
Income tax a wartime measure that haunts us still
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the first 50 years after Confederation, the ethos was that taxing incomes weakened Canada’s competitive position. That changed in 1917
Future Tory leader must look to the past for role models
Reading Time: 3 minutes If the next Conservative Party of Canada leader doesn’t maintain and build on the Mulroney-Harper legacy, he or she is doomed to failure
Good riddance to vulgarian Kevin O’Leary
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like Donald Trump, O’Leary seems to like to say whatever mean, rotten, cruel thing pops into his head, equating notoriety with support
The taxing business of complying with the income tax code
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to reform the complex tax system to save Canadians billions. Let’s get rid of ineffective credits, deductions and other special provisions
Parties that obsess on getting elected have no reason to exist
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sadly, as they get close to power, rhetoric overpowers principles and charisma overtakes substance
Trump’s milk shake puts Canada’s dairy industry on notice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s dairy farmers are about to pay a heavy price for Ottawa’s lack of leadership. Dramatic changes are on the way on someone else’s terms
Electoral reform by any other name is still progress
Reading Time: 4 minutes Relax party discipline to dent the iron control of a majority government, forcing it to make compromises and behave less like a dictatorship
A multi-candidate Tory leadership race from another era
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fifty years ago the Tories selected Robert Stanfield from a large roster of candidates to replace John Diefenbaker. Stanfield went on to lose to Pierre Trudeau