Crony capitalism is alive and well in Canada. And its just the kind that begot the US housing crash. http://business.financialpost.com/2012/12/21/feds-ok-another-50-billion-of-mortgage-guarantees-for-private-sector-players/ Ottawa has increased by $50-billion the amount of residential mortgages that it is willing to guarantee.
But this time the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., the biggest provider of mortgage default insurance, is not getting any. Instead, the additional backing is going only to private-sector players such as Genworth Canada, who will see their maximum raised to $300-billion from $250-billion. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/19/john-ivison-harper-government-may-revive-direct-business-subsidies-in-effort-to-win-quebec-atlantic-votes/ The funding announcement at the beginning of last month ushered in a Yuletide spending spree in which ACOA sprinkled $2.8-million like fairy dust across Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 17 separate “community infrastructure” improvement releases. Soon, there will be hardly a hockey rink in the region that isn’t renovated or a recreational hall roof that needs to be re-shingled.
Stephen Harper is the most nefarious and virulent Canadian enemy of capitalism since Trudeau.
Please watch and enjoy the dismay this interviewer/journalist must go through to get the story I can assure you this guy would be toothless and I would be out of a job but leave it to the Hollywood butt sniffers to get the non story please watch and enjoy the embarrassment of this journalist get the hard story!!!
I am still trying not to laugh at her!!! http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJdMFyxd8ps
Enjoy I know I did I am still laughing what I loser fake waste of skin they all are!! Lol but soooo worth the laugh!!
Left wing media at its finest!!
The left does not have the numbers in Congress to significantly change any federal regulations. There will be all sorts of heartfelt photo opps but in the end nothing will be done federally. The government is smart enough to remember the last time they tried to prohibit something. All that did was make organized crime richer and more powerful. Most leftists fail to understand the unintended consequence of banning anything. The left has enough numbers in a few states to enact their battle-rifle-look-alike bans. It will be interesting to see how that works out.
The right will find ways to guard their schools, well screened qualified volunteers if necessary. They’ll likely expand the marshal service to provide plainclothes guards in schools. The red states are comprised of self-motivated, hard-working, responsible, self-reliant people who are used to getting things done. They don’t expect the government to do it for them.
It will be an interesting experiment.
People who control blue states will try banning ‘bad stuff’.
People who control red states will protect schools, with armed force if necessary.
In a few years we’ll see what works and what doesn’t.
Aw come on Gus please watch it I assure you ! You will laugh!
Please!
Left-liberalism retreats.
Say No! to left-liberalism.
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“Hunger-striking chief softens stand on meeting with Harper”
“Obama ‘modestly optimistic’ about last-minute agreement”
(G-M)
AGW Breaks Records.
Massive has seven (7) days.
H/T Green Lizard May/Suzuki/warmistas/Our CBC.
…-
“Massive snow removal operation underway in Montreal
The City of Montreal says it will likely take seven days before all the clean up from Thursday’s record-setting snowstorm is complete.”
“Record-breaking storm moves to Newfoundland”
Left-liberal Reservation.
Stay Off. By Order. Chief UNaBomber.
H/T Ex-GG Voodoo.
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“Ottawa renews warning for travel to Haiti
Globe and Mail”
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“‘Most everything went wrong’: Three years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, the reconstruction has barely begun” http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/28/haiti-earthquake-anniversary/
TEST
Have a look at: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/28/canadas-got-swagger-our-days-of-modesty-are-now-over/
I think it’s okay, as far as it goes. But, then, Andrew Cohen talking about public transit and aboriginals? WUWT?
And this:
“Jim Fisher, a professor of strategic management at the Rotman School of Management, credits our ascendancy to an accident of geography, “to being in a country with resources that the world needs which keeps our economy kicking when others are limping — and of course we attribute it to our brilliance and not to our good luck.”
I don’t get this bunkum attitude at all: Canada is not an “accident of geography”. It is the result of a deliberate and “brilliant” decision by Sir John A. Macdonald — whose government chose to assume and occupy, if you’ll forgive the term, a very large piece of territory that nobody else apparently wanted, with very few human or financial resources to bring to bear, against the “unmeasured dangers of the future”, if you’ll forgive the Churchillism. Macdonald’s government actively supported the construction of the (investor-owned) railway, which has been a source of pride and, admittedly, discomfort. This decision was followed up later by Sir Robert Borden, who’s government created the CNR, albeit as a nationalized firm that was later privatized officially by the Liberals, but preparation for which began under the Mulroney government — that name, again!; it just seems to keep popping up in connection with the way we are economically today.
The construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, or any of the American railroads, cannot compare with the time-tested genius of Macdonald, especially in light of what little he had to work with. We ought to celebrate this genius as an act of national identity every day, rather than worrying about uselessly-subsidized empty buses and latter-day sit-ins.
Kathryn Blaze Carlson NP interview with Rudyard Griffiths of the Historica-Dominion Institute Through the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and into the 1980s, there were three pillars of Canadian identity: peacekeeping, healthcare and the threat of Quebec separation. Today, I think Canadians are looking for sources of identity outside those things. Peacekeeping, for example, is now officially part of Canadian history — we had a war in Afghanistan — so that pillar is gone. The Harper government has a really unique opportunity to go out and reset the clock on Canadian identity, and they’ve done that in a number of ways.
Some enjoy their status as victims, but some are pro-active. Any bets on which ones are safer ?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/12/utah-teachers-get-gun-training-in-wake-of-newtown-shooting.html
Crony capitalism is alive and well in Canada. And its just the kind that begot the US housing crash.
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/12/21/feds-ok-another-50-billion-of-mortgage-guarantees-for-private-sector-players/
Ottawa has increased by $50-billion the amount of residential mortgages that it is willing to guarantee.
But this time the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., the biggest provider of mortgage default insurance, is not getting any. Instead, the additional backing is going only to private-sector players such as Genworth Canada, who will see their maximum raised to $300-billion from $250-billion.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/19/john-ivison-harper-government-may-revive-direct-business-subsidies-in-effort-to-win-quebec-atlantic-votes/
The funding announcement at the beginning of last month ushered in a Yuletide spending spree in which ACOA sprinkled $2.8-million like fairy dust across Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 17 separate “community infrastructure” improvement releases. Soon, there will be hardly a hockey rink in the region that isn’t renovated or a recreational hall roof that needs to be re-shingled.
Stephen Harper is the most nefarious and virulent Canadian enemy of capitalism since Trudeau.
This is our future if the greens have their way. mike
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254397/Oxford-graduate-quit-mainstream-society-live-hobbit-style-existence-mud-hut-Welsh-hills.html
Please watch and enjoy the dismay this interviewer/journalist must go through to get the story I can assure you this guy would be toothless and I would be out of a job but leave it to the Hollywood butt sniffers to get the non story please watch and enjoy the embarrassment of this journalist get the hard story!!!
I am still trying not to laugh at her!!!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJdMFyxd8ps
Enjoy I know I did I am still laughing what I loser fake waste of skin they all are!! Lol but soooo worth the laugh!!
Left wing media at its finest!!
The left does not have the numbers in Congress to significantly change any federal regulations. There will be all sorts of heartfelt photo opps but in the end nothing will be done federally. The government is smart enough to remember the last time they tried to prohibit something. All that did was make organized crime richer and more powerful. Most leftists fail to understand the unintended consequence of banning anything. The left has enough numbers in a few states to enact their battle-rifle-look-alike bans. It will be interesting to see how that works out.
The right will find ways to guard their schools, well screened qualified volunteers if necessary. They’ll likely expand the marshal service to provide plainclothes guards in schools. The red states are comprised of self-motivated, hard-working, responsible, self-reliant people who are used to getting things done. They don’t expect the government to do it for them.
It will be an interesting experiment.
People who control blue states will try banning ‘bad stuff’.
People who control red states will protect schools, with armed force if necessary.
In a few years we’ll see what works and what doesn’t.
Aw come on Gus please watch it I assure you ! You will laugh!
Please!
Left-liberalism retreats.
Say No! to left-liberalism.
…-
“Hunger-striking chief softens stand on meeting with Harper”
“Obama ‘modestly optimistic’ about last-minute agreement”
(G-M)
AGW Breaks Records.
Massive has seven (7) days.
H/T Green Lizard May/Suzuki/warmistas/Our CBC.
…-
“Massive snow removal operation underway in Montreal
The City of Montreal says it will likely take seven days before all the clean up from Thursday’s record-setting snowstorm is complete.”
“Record-breaking storm moves to Newfoundland”
Wandered into this …. For anyone interested in the history and development of “stealth” combat aircraft and drones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_9klYgXlVhE#!
Left-liberal Reservation.
Stay Off. By Order. Chief UNaBomber.
H/T Ex-GG Voodoo.
…-
“Ottawa renews warning for travel to Haiti
Globe and Mail”
…-
“‘Most everything went wrong’: Three years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, the reconstruction has barely begun”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/28/haiti-earthquake-anniversary/
TEST
Have a look at:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/28/canadas-got-swagger-our-days-of-modesty-are-now-over/
I think it’s okay, as far as it goes. But, then, Andrew Cohen talking about public transit and aboriginals? WUWT?
And this:
“Jim Fisher, a professor of strategic management at the Rotman School of Management, credits our ascendancy to an accident of geography, “to being in a country with resources that the world needs which keeps our economy kicking when others are limping — and of course we attribute it to our brilliance and not to our good luck.”
I don’t get this bunkum attitude at all: Canada is not an “accident of geography”. It is the result of a deliberate and “brilliant” decision by Sir John A. Macdonald — whose government chose to assume and occupy, if you’ll forgive the term, a very large piece of territory that nobody else apparently wanted, with very few human or financial resources to bring to bear, against the “unmeasured dangers of the future”, if you’ll forgive the Churchillism. Macdonald’s government actively supported the construction of the (investor-owned) railway, which has been a source of pride and, admittedly, discomfort. This decision was followed up later by Sir Robert Borden, who’s government created the CNR, albeit as a nationalized firm that was later privatized officially by the Liberals, but preparation for which began under the Mulroney government — that name, again!; it just seems to keep popping up in connection with the way we are economically today.
The construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, or any of the American railroads, cannot compare with the time-tested genius of Macdonald, especially in light of what little he had to work with. We ought to celebrate this genius as an act of national identity every day, rather than worrying about uselessly-subsidized empty buses and latter-day sit-ins.
Kathryn Blaze Carlson NP interview with Rudyard Griffiths of the Historica-Dominion Institute
Through the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and into the 1980s, there were three pillars of Canadian identity: peacekeeping, healthcare and the threat of Quebec separation. Today, I think Canadians are looking for sources of identity outside those things. Peacekeeping, for example, is now officially part of Canadian history — we had a war in Afghanistan — so that pillar is gone. The Harper government has a really unique opportunity to go out and reset the clock on Canadian identity, and they’ve done that in a number of ways.