Wynne would be smart to reverse useless corporate tax cuts
What’s the smartest move to make if you’re premier of a province facing a $20-billion deficit? Cut corporate taxes by $2.4-billion a year, of course! At least, that’s the way…
Ron Waller
Ontario Liberals and NDP should just govern
Canada has one of the most unstable democracies when compared to Western European countries that use proportional representation. That may seem odd considering we usually dole out 4-year dictatorships to…
Toronto Star: fiercely against voting reform and real democracy
Although the Toronto Star is said to be a “leftist” newspaper, the fact is the Left will not find a fiercer enemy of electoral reform than the Toronto Star. Like…
Mulcair smart enough to fight fire with fire
Thomas Mulcair unloaded both barrels on newly minted finance minister Joe Oliver with sound bites that grabbed the media spotlight. After watching a parade of political leaders go down in…
Flaherty’s $56-billion deficit wasn’t caused by stimulus spending
Flaherty is getting too much credit for balancing a budget mess he created in the first place with reckless tax cuts. An article from the Canadian Press associates Flaherty’s $56-billion…
Canada’s crazy idea of majority rule
I think it would be funny to watch Rick Mercer take his mike to the streets and ask Canadians what the word “majority” means. Although I probably spend more time…
If Canada was a real democracy, Harper likely wouldn’t have come to power
In the rest of the developed world, the party with the most votes means nothing. Government represents an actual majority of voters which almost always takes the form of multi-party…
Who loves First-Past-the-Post — for all the wrong reasons?
There are three groups of people who love our corrupt and undemocratic voting system, First-Past-the-Post: partisans, businessmen and Conservatives. Partisans love it because it doles out unfettered power on 39%…
Proportional representation much more stable than First-Past-the-Post
One of the lies the corporate-owned media spreads about PR is that it leads to “short-lived governments paralyzed by conflict.” According to the “leftist” Toronto Star: The best argument in…
RoFo 2014!!
A Rob Ford re-election victory in October would be the best thing possible for Canadian democracy. What better way to show our voting system is joke than to have an…
Free trade with South Korea more boneheaded ideology
Thirty years of free-market reforms have caused debt and inequality to soar, hollowed out the middle class, hobbled income mobility and produced a global economic meltdown we have yet to…
Ridiculous election results projected in Quebec
Thanks to our undemocratic voting system, First-Past-the-Post, the PQ could win a majority with the same percent vote the Liberals have. With a mere 38% support from Quebecers, the PQ…
Voting in the free world
Of 34 developed countries, only Canada and the UK dole out absolute power to arbitrary minority parties. Other countries ensure an actual majority of voters is represented in government. Check…
My ‘ROC’ excludes Alberta
Jeffrey Simpson writes how annoying Quebecers better think twice about “putting a knife to Canada’s throat” because the “Rest of Canada” is fed up with it. This kind of rhetoric…
The “Mound of Sound” aka “The Re-affected Lib” has blown a gasket
Yesterday the “Mound of Sound” ranted about how Thomas Mulcair was a traitor for not backing the Liberals in the Quebec election. I pointed out how this absurd and baseless…
Mulcair backs the federalist side in Quebec
The not-so-Disaffected Lib is trying to smear Thomas Mulcair by claiming he’s a traitor for not backing the Liberal party in the recently-announced Quebec election. That sounds like something the…
It’s the inequality, stupid
Robert Reich has a column in today’s Globe and Mail: It’s the inequality, stupid. He discusses how almost all the gains from economic growth over the last 30 years have…
Tax Free Savings Account: Whopping tax cut for the rich
In 2009, Harper introduced the TFSA — or what the wealthy call the “totally fantastic savings account!” It allows a person to put away $5000/yr in savings or investments and…
Trudeau ruling out working with NDP shows he just doesn’t get it
In the rest of the developed world, coalition governments are the norm. But instead of standing up for Canadian democracy, Justin Trudeau has decided to back Harper’s anti-democratic position that…
Trudeau chooses vanity over democracy
Justin Trudeau has abandoned his promise to upgrade our primitive voting system, First-Past-the-Post, with ranked ballot voting — which Liberal party members supported by 70% at their 2012 convention. Instead,…