Canada's Debt

The Canadian Taxpayer's Federation has an interesting site here. Watch your federal government spend money!

Citizenship Guide

It's not often (I don't think ever) that I'm really eager to get my hands on a government publication promoting this or that. However, over the last week I read much about Canada's new citizenship guidebook. After reading this I'm wondering how to get my hands on one! It sounds like the Government has finally prepared a booklet about Canada that's not about "healthcare" and "sharing" but about our constitutional history and our record of sound (relatively) representative (relatively) responsible government and our place in the World. I'm sick and tired of the mantra that "healthcare" defines us as a nation. Thank's to Mr. Warren for his column!

I found an ecopy here.

With a Little Help from His Friends

The other night our Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined Yo Yo Ma on stage at the NAC in Ottawa in a Beatles cover "With a Little Help From My Friends". This video has gone viral and is being seen by hundreds of thousands on YouTube and the Globe and Mail flash version. The most complete including his introduction and the surprised laughter of the audience can only  be seen on the PMO's own YouTube Channel. Only several thousand have seen it there so I thought I'd share it here. I have to smile at all the layers of irony of the song. Who does he need to love? Dion? Who are his friends? Jack and Gilles? After all these minority governments, where is love at first sight? Who is he going to get high with? Rahim Jaffer? It's just all too funny.

** I was hoping to keep it secret, but my sister caught me sitting in the orchestra! You can see me (or maybe its that proverbial double we all have). I've got a look-a-like at 3:52- 3:55 at the bottom right. He appears again at 4:13-4:15 on the bottom left. I'd love to know if he's a long lost relative. Even I think he looks like me!!!

The Red-Stew Budget

Stephen Harper's conservatives abandoned "social conservatives" several years ago. Now he's crossed the floor on conservative fiscal policy as well. The new budget is a sell out of conservative birthright, sold for a bowl of liberal "red-stew."

Letter to PM Stephen Harper

Dear Mr. Harper

I was encouraged to hear reports about your comments on the HRC's (both provincial and federal). As a Pastor of a Christian Church, I am willing to stand up for the things I believe in. That might mean, however, that I am prosecuted by Ms. Hall and her team of commissioners. I believe that British common law and Canada's "hate-laws" provide sufficient protection for all, against libel, slander and "hate-crimes". It's time to "de-fang" the vipers in our midst and decommission the commissioners.

With respect ... and congratulations on your re-election.
May God keep our land, glorious and free!


John van Popta
Pastor
Fellowship Canadian Reformed Church
Burlington ON

Dion's New Tax

I think it was last year sometime that I read that as Stephen Harper and his Minister of Finance were cutting taxes and the GST, they were also undercutting the Liberal Party's ability to find money for great social engineering spending programs. The Liberals didn't take long to find a new way to advance their cause. Find a new tax. They couldn't, with any credibility suggest that they'd raise the GST or income tax to spend their billions on whom ever they wanted to make recipients of their largesse. So they've hooked their "tax cow" to the "environmental cart". They'll tax the living daylights out of "carbon sources", with the mantra, "this is for the planet"; but really it's for their programs.

And may all of you have pleasant and blessed "Dominion Day."