Conservative Budget.

Well, well, well its amazing what a little over a year of being in power will do. I can't believe how far they've moved to the centre since forming the Government. I would have reduced the GST to 5% a little sooner, put a little money towards Olympic Athletes training, allowed spousal income-splitting--not just for seniors, happy to see a big payment on the federal debt, but this 'fiscal imbalance' crap sucks. The Conservatives have succombed to the Seperatists propaganda about hard done by Quebec is. Hopefully the Charest led provincial Liberals will do well in the election and the PQ will continue to self destruct. This past week we had yet another example of how a significant portion of French Canadian nationalism is racist. The PQ leaders racist statements about Asian students in university wouldn't be tolerated any where else in Canada but its ok in Quebec.

Shooting the Messengers.

The recent media reports on Al Gore's house and what vehicle David Suzuki drives shows how desperate those who haven't woken up to sustainability are. I'm not completely sold on Global Warming-we have only been keeping verifiable weather records for a little over 100 years, but we all can do better on the pollution front especially Canadians (the worst polluters per capita in the world). Critics don't want to address the message so they go after the messengers. In a way it shows they are starting to get an audience.