NDP have agreed to allow Liberal government to shut down parliament until mid September after they agreed to grant all workers 10 paid sick days. Despite the fact this falls under provincial jurisdiction and thus no obligation for any province to implement this, I believe closing parliament in these tough times is a bad idea.… Continue reading Parliament Shut down wrong

With the next Tory leader to be decided this August, the party faces a real conundrum: is it still possible to win both the leadership race and the next election?  The conservative base has always been to the right of the median voter, but a decade ago there was still enough overlap that a skilled… Continue reading Tory leadership Conundrum

As a small c conservative who wants to see an alternative to Justin Trudeau, the Conservative race has been quite disappointing. Trudeau is doing a decent job of handling COVID-19, but we will be left with a huge debt once this is over and with the kind of policies needed to kick start our economy,… Continue reading Tories digging a bigger hole

Today the details of the Liberals' assault weapons ban has come out.  I generally am supportive but still believe improvement is needed.  All of the guns being banned are ones I do not believe are appropriate for civilian ownership and thus no objections to the ones being banned.  My bigger concern is I don't agree… Continue reading Liberal Assault Weapons ban

I am a small c conservative, but must say I have been watching in dismay the way the party is acting and fear they are just throwing away the next election.  Rather than trying to broaden appeal while still remain centre-right, they seem to want to double down on appealing to their base and strongholds. … Continue reading Tories need to get their act together if they don’t want to throw away another Election

With COVID-19 in full swing, one of the big questions are when will this end and what will the impacts be.  If things go well, I believe by late May we can begin a gradual re-opening, but note gradual.  Until we have a vaccine I doubt things will fully return to normal and even then… Continue reading COVID-19 and impacts

With COVID-19, much of my focus has been on that so no new blogs, however tomorrow I will write one on possible economic and political implications.  Obviously at this point still a lot of speculation, but what we can say is this is a life changing event and while many things will return to normal,… Continue reading Sanders drops out and Keir Starmer elected Labour leader

Global News has just confirmed that federal government wants to give itself unilateral power to raise and cut taxes without parliamentary approval until December 2021.  This is an outrageous abuse of power and absolutely must not be allowed.  Trying times likes these are where parties should be working together, not times where governments should try… Continue reading Emergency Act taxing powers

Things are happening so fast that what I write here will probably be out of date in a few days.  Nonetheless, COVID-19 is growing like wildfire in North America and its important for people to heed warnings.  In terms of government handling, I think they've done a good job but made some mistakes.  Nonetheless, we… Continue reading Coronavirus Update

With the Coronavirus causing many businesses to lose customers and many people not able to work, the government will need to take action here.  I have been very critical of their decisions to run deficits during good times and I think what we have now shows why you should run surpluses during good times so… Continue reading Upcoming Budget