The National Post must be applauded for their most recent editorial, “Wanted: Zero budgetary growth“. The question is, will Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty pay any attention to it?
The most basic of conservative principles is to live within one’s means. If a majority Conservative government in Canada won’t eliminate the annual deficit within a year or so, is the entire notion of conservative thought lost in our country for at least the next few decades?
Will Harper and Flaherty pay attention? Never!
Is conservative thought dead in Canada? Forever!
We don’t want zero budgetary growth. That’s the mistake Conservative pols always make, holding the line. Don’t hold the damn line, that is not what you were elected to do. We want the budget line rubbed out and redrawn back around 1962 somewhere.
We want major budgetary SHRINKAGE. We want to see a mighty river of PINK SLIPS, nay, an -ocean- of them. We want to see Liberal Party appointees crying on television because they’ve been punted after twenty years of “service”. We want to see Loyd Robertson have a conniption on live TV at the extent of the carnage. We want to see rioting and burning cars on Front Street as the entire CBC spills out onto the road, freaks out, melts down and bursts into flames.
We want to see a price crash in the used office furniture market, due to sudden massive supplies from shuttered federal offices.
We want to see “For Sale” signs in Miriamichi NB, as -all- the gun registry “workers” have to go find other employment. By preference outside government, please.
We want to see the population of Ottawa Ontario shrink by 200,000 in the next two years. We want to see Ottawa housing prices -tank- as zillions of federal civil service roaches scurry back to Toronto or whatever other rock they spawned under.
CPC lurkers, are you LISTENING? Better be, boys. There’s always Wild Rose if you won’t get it done.
When I used to manage businesses there were always people trying to add new programs or implement new items. No problem I would say. We’d work out the costs and logistics and as the meeting ended I would point out what program I was going to cancel to make room for the new one. They never liked that but that’s one of the reason I always made money for the people I worked for.
Simple budgetting.
Something new comes in. Something old goes out.
Good one,phantom! While you’re at it, how about that “safe boating program” run by Transport Canada,where every old fart with a twelve foot fishing boat powered by a six horse Johnson has to pay $50 for a”lifetime” safe boater’s card.
Soon it’ll change to every five years,just like driver’s licences.
But if just ONE life is saved,it’s worth a bureaucracy.
Go here for O’s dismal science:
“Barack Obama”
“The Road from Moneygall”
“by Stephen McDonagh”
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/world-news/panic-as-belarus-devalues-rouble-2657989.html
(Not Free.)
Related:
“Most Belarusian industries are state-owned, and the government has tried to keep its scarce currency reserves for vital imports.”
“Panic as Belarus devalues rouble”
“Financial panic has swept the republic of Belarus after its currency was sharply devalued.
Crowds cleared store shelves and queued up at currency exchange offices in a desperate attempt to protect their savings.” (more)
Before they kicked me off of Blogging Tories, I used to complain about how Stephen Harper had thrown every single one of his “deeply held beliefs” under the bus, because the next election was more important than balanced budgets, election funding, what have you. The excuse that was thrown back at me was of course “minority”; you can only do so much with a minority, wait for the majority, I was always told.
Today I can safely say that while I am pleased that I was right, I am also disappointed that I was never, and will not, be proven wrong. The thing about the precious majority is, there is always another one to hope for.
Posted by: The Phantom at 10:46 AM
Absolutely 100% on the mark.
Cancel the transfer payment scam, sell off ceeb tv.
And faster please!
Do it, for the children…
There will always be elements within a society who can make their living by the avails of others. Fiscal conservatives might not like that but the question is whether our economy can provide otherwise? Factor out inflation from GDP growth rates and consider whether the economy is even growing. Add the demographic drag in consumption and long term growth looks even worse.
Canada’s success over the past ten years has been from increased commodity prices not productivity growth. Most people in Canada are living off recycled dollars rather than ‘value added’ production. Globalization is wiping out most value added production simply because off-shore is cheaper. This reality is even worse in the USA.
The challenge for conservative thought is how to deliver a productive economy which distributes wealth to the majority of society. Failure to do so simply loses that voter to no-minds like Layton who promises the moon without having to account how he will accomplish ‘the chicken in every pot’.
If Canadian society had never let the politicans (of every stripe) deficit finance there might be a chance of turning the ship. To adopt it now would probably require an effort comparable to WWII. I doubt our citizens would stand for that if a change could be made thru the ballot box. I suspect things will not change until no other option exists.
I can think of a few gov’t programs that get a lot of money and aren’t very efficient:
1) Socialized Medicine–perhaps good old private industry can bring this service to the population with a little bit more efficiency–and I’m not against sex-change operations but I’m not interested in paying for somebody I don’t know to get one–and governments at all levels can tax these businesses win-win-win (time to go);
2) Gun registry (time to go);
3) Re-institute capital punishment for rapists and 1st degree murderers(it will lower the number of criminals in prison, thus freeing up space–through execution)–are we really going to fret about guys like Bernardo and Russell–really?;
4) Money sent to third world/dictatorial regimes, which includes China and Pakistan (time to go);
5) Equalization payments–if you can’t find a decent job in your province, then it’s time to move (time to go);
6) Multi-cultural Programs which include grants to cultural/heritage societies–if these cultural societies can’t get people of their own culture to provide money for their survival then it’s time to become Canadian not a hyphenated Canadian(time to go);
7) DIAND or whatever it’s called now–time for the aboriginal peoples to get a job and become functioning citizens of Canada (time to go);
8) Official Bilingualism (really time to go).
Just a short list that comes to mind in order to begin the cuts to the budget.
favill
To all previous posts on this string; bravo and Amen. Cheers;
While I agree with the substance of the NP op-ed, I disagree with the suggested timing. IMO, PMSH is already thinking ahead to the next GE. Leaders lead by influencing others to go where they might not otherwise want to go. And that will be easier if he doesn’t rattle the country so soon after winning. “Canadians don’t like surprises.” As has been mentioned elsewhere, he has plenty of media in his corner including Postmedia and the new, and brilliant, SunTV to articulate his messages in the future. He has money and demographics in his favour. And he’s got a rattled oppostion, recent NDP gains notwithstanding. For a country such as ours that has basked in big government for so long, I expect more of Prof. Flanagan’s ‘incremental conservatism’ will be used to steer the country on its new course towards deeper Conservative waters. IOW, in four years from now, people will consider their new state of affairs, ie lower personal and business taxes, job growth, less Big Brother etc as the ‘norm’ and they will look upon with suspicion anyone who threatens it with big spending promises.
I see a shun sign in that Raye.
The future is the past.
What I wish for and have written to the CPC about, of course no response as usual, is for PM Harper to begin to communicate via television the world financial picture and the impact on Canada’s economy.
The economic picture of Europe and the US due to their never ending spending, bureaucracies, public unions and bloated socialist governments is absolutely frightening. Just focus on Ontario under the Lieberals would be a start showing how their idiotic policies have bankrupted Ontario.
Communicating this to Canadians, and Harper is, IMHO, excellent at this with a calm measured delivery would help people really understand the only fix for this for Canada is actually cutting spending, programs and the size of government.
Do this frequently, showing the impact of the implementation of CPC policies in the real world would reassure Canadians we are on the “right” path.
Hear, hear, Phantom!
I think Harper has the right idea with incrementalism. While I agree with the idea of vastly decreasing the size ans cope of government, I am also mindful of the fact that if he cuts too much too soon, the voters of (and not just of Quebec and Ontario) will abandon the CPC in droves. And then they will elect some sort of Liberal/NDP Frankenstein monster, who will build some monstrous new nanny state on the decks that Harper has cleared.
Start by balancing the budget. Let people feel good about that. Cut taxes, and allow the economy to grow. Start phasing out civil service jobs, and eventually programs as well. And most importantly of all: NO NEW SOCIAL PROGRAMS!!
You cannot turn a population who is used to “Big provider of service government” into a population who believes “That government governs best which governs least” overnight. It will take a generation.
Right now we have an opportunity. If conservatives blow it by expecting overnight change, and (God forbid) by splitting the vote AGAIN, then we really are nothing but cranky bitchers rather than nation builders.
Patience people. It took a generation to dig this hole. It will take a generation to get out of it too.
favill, please add getting Oceans and Fisheries out of our culvert repair hair here in the western provinces.
I would wish more, but at the least it should be as the NP op-ed suggests and the Conservatives should keep whittling away at funding for this group or that group a little here and a little there or totally eliminating funding for some blatantly political advocacy groups.
My comment should have said favill, please add Oceans and Fisheries to your list and get them out of our culvert repairing hair.
Even a staunchly conservative government would have difficulty eliminating the deficit in “a year or so.” That’s just a tad optimistic.
Canada’s on the edge, and must back away slowly.
We find ourselves in the state of having 1/3rd the population working for government, 1/3rd the population depending on government programs, and 1/3rd the population actually working and paying for the other 2/3rds.
By all means turn things around, but be careful!
Having 66% of the population angry or afraid of you is no way to continue to get majority governments.
One step at a time, just make sure each step is in the right direction or at least turning toward it…
While we’re at it may we reform immigration too please.
Fewer actual terrorists, lunatics and less family reunification of the whole peasant village.
More highly qualified individuals. Thanks.
If real progress in reducing the role and cost of the federal government during the first two years of a majority government is not accomplished, none will occur as the last two years will be aimed at garnering support from the centre-left which is now considered the centre by pundits.
Deep cuts now.
Do some major audits of the Crown Corporations and use the findings as a reason for a slash and burn conservative fiscal policy.
Spend that political capital at the beginning and then tweak what’s necessary to get things running smooth before the next general election.
Well, well, well, what a lot of boneheaded misanthropy in this thread. Banish the deficit in one to two years? Maybe some of you have forgotten there’s a war on. And that a large part of the reason for the rise in government spending has been the re-arming of Canada’s military. That’s where the billions are going, not the hundreds or tens of millions.
Phantom: “We want to see Ottawa housing prices -tank- as zillions of federal civil service roaches scurry back to Toronto or whatever other rock they spawned under.”
There’s a lot more people who live and work in Ottawa and have nothing to do with government work. So f**k you. Crawl back under your Arizona rock and drop dead.
Favill: At least one item on your list is drivel. Please identify the money we “send” to China. What are you proposing? A trade war with China? Are you under the delusion we send them 3rd world aid development? Are you suggesting we shut down the single largest and fastest growing market for all those commodities, from wheat to coal, produced in western Canada?
I like Phantom’s list, but I wish he wouldn’t ‘hold back’ so much.
@ John at 1:06:
I agree. Cut harder in the first two years, and then in the next two years ease off and run on a balance budget and economic growth. Allow people to feel good about the direction things are going.
As for the notion of “hoping that housing prices in Ottawa tank…”, and that Mirimachi NB faces a similar fate: *cue eye roll now*. Grow up. I am all for ending the gun registry, privatizing the CBC, and making deep cuts to the federal civil service. But if we make this about some sort of sadistic glee in seeing people hurt just because we have got a mad-on, … well, that’s just immature. I for one don’t want this type of sentiment (And that’s all it is. Emotionalistic sentiment) purporting to be the voice of conservatism in Canada.
cgh,
Check it out:
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/02/24/17395606.html
LMAO. Absolutely hilarious to see Conjobs like Phantom wonder, after 5 years of ever growing government, how could the CPC even think of growing government? Conservatives are so stupid and naive. That fantasy of yours will NEVER happen, and it’s because of people like you. To answer Robert’s question, yeah it’s dead and SDA helped kill it.
Maybe some of you have forgotten there’s a war on. And that a large part of the reason for the rise in government spending has been the re-arming of Canada’s military.
First off, there’s an easy solution: get out of the war. Second point is BS. Most of the spending increase has been outside the military and the increase in military spending has been more focused on hiring bureaucrats than new soldiers. The number of soldiers hasn’t increased that much.
I think there is an appetite in the electorate for cutting spending. But your call for a cut within a year….we just had an election where the promise was 3 years, or was it 4?
Personally I would love it….but I will tell you the least attractive quality about conservatives are these litmus tests that show up out of nowhere. This government got a mandate, and if they can exceed it on the fiscal front thats great I am all for it.
But really, why would you set yourself up for disappointment and failure with this kind of statement. I expect they will exceed their ow promise quite honestly, but the other conservative principle is cautious movement to avoid unintended consequences, ie do no harm.
Even if the cons meet their promise they will be stellar managers compared to anyone else around the world. I am more interested in seeing them stop the growth in burewacrats and in seeing sunsetting of old programs and deadwood agencies, whether that saves millions or billions is less important than cutting the scope of government.
Instead of all the ideological jihad cutting proposed by many of the commenters just do it the way – ready for this . . . – Chretien did it.
It worked well and if copied properly, a Conservative gov will finally deliver what it promises.
But cutting ” bi-lingualism” why not just say you want to break up Canada? This can be done without the crazy. Or is there really a hidden agenda?
Anyway fair play to the OP it is a good question. Just looking for some good answers now.
Wow parliment has not resumed yet and everyone is clammering and attacking harper , give the guy a chance man!!
I agree with the posters in here who feel to much to fast will ensure a coalition govornemnt in 2015
I want to see it all end to the registry ,cbc ,you name it i want it all gone to but harper and co need to ween people off of the govornmrnt tit so to speak .
DON’T BE SO IMPATIENT it seems no matter what he does he is damned if he does and he is damned if he doesn’t not even a month into this and so called conservatives are bashing there guy what is wrong with you guy’s !!!! not even a month parliment reumes on june second from what i gather let’s wait and see what happenes here !!! man phantom needs to chill out and i agree with everything he said but the truth is it is going to take at least two majority govornment’s to really see these thing’s come to fruition maybe even three!! it just takes time trudeau, mulroony,crietien,martin……how many years is that? now let’s see let
s cut that in half and what do you get …no matter what it will take a long friken time ….but yes i agree it can’t come soon enough let’s stand by this govornemnt and let em know when they screw up but also support the thing’s they do do!!!
Harper has morfed into the Liberals with his fat buddy buddy patronage appointments and huge deficit spending.
While I still hold true to conservative fiscal values, it will be a long time before I vote for a quote unquote conservative candidate. (I think the Liberal in my riding was more fiscally conservative … how sad a statement is THAT!!)
Government growth at the expense of tax payers & buisness has to sop. Its killing jobs, over regulating our lives & generally is counter productive. Besides stealing earnings from people to justify huge wages by government buracricies. Particularly managment. This political card game should be stopped dead.
JMO
Government growth at the expense of tax payers & business has to stop. Its killing jobs, over regulating our lives, & generally is counter productive. It kills the birth rate & robs people of insentives to save. Besides stealing earnings from people to justify huge wages by government bureaucracies. Particularly management. This political card game should be stopped dead.
JMO
does the average Canuckistan fambly increase their spending *every year* ????
well then why the %$#^%@# does the whole country have to ???? hmmmm ????
time to show your true colours mr harper.
oh, wait; with the biggest cabinet ever and those ominous ‘too expensive for the pentagon’ F35s looming I dont hold up (pun intended) much hope for that outcome being desireable.
ping, health care spending alone increases by 6% a year while GDP only increases by 3% per year. That’s a big reason why. And as for the F35s, what would you rather the air force use? Sopwith Camels?
Revnant Dream: please do try to understand where government spends money and how little of it is discretionary.
Paul in Calgary, the snarling “do it now” around this thread explains in part why the left wing media-mafia doesn’t take conservative thinking seriously.
cgh, yes we sent a boatload of money to China mostly through CIDA. Here’s the link: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1345
gray: funny Canada did not have official bilingualism until the late 60’s. How the heck did our country survive and thrive without it for a hundred years?
what a lot of you folks who are against the participation of Canada in the Afghan War seem not to realize is that because of our participation we have earned an extraordinarily high profile and prestige in international circles. Hate to say it, but a country’s ability to fight and its willingness to do is still the measure of its economic might/prosperity and its international standing.
favill
“And as for the F35s, what would you rather the air force use?”
uh, well cg, I’d rather a BIDDING PROCESS be utilized. at the very least *prior* to contracts being carved in granite you can get a better deal because of (wait for it) a thing called COMPETITION. all you have to do is be prepared to ante up some cash to compensate the serious players for their conscientious efforts in assembling a legitimate bid. and so that they dont scoff the next time and the next time.
or aren’t you aware of that?
here’s an easy Q for ya: WHY in gawds name was there NO tenders? hmmm?
@Ping
The liberals under crietien started the bidding , it was between lockheed martin , macdonald dougals, and one other company i think haliburton maybe (i could be wrong on that one)…no one else in the western world sells fighter jet’s and i am sorry but screw russia and screw any other country that hates or does not align with western values i don’t want to pay some other country to build us fighters only to take that money and spend it on other more advanced fighters to attack us with . sorry .
there was a four year bidding/interviewing process in place long before harper all harper has done is picked up where they left off now granted he could/should re investigate the cost for sure but like everyhting else they have gone up in price as well as any other fighter and if your thinking about britain they have tarrif’s on exporting military good’s genrally and so it was narrowed down to a north american solution you should watch sun news they have people on from both sides far and wide to give there two cent’s on the fighter jet thing and from what i gather the price has gone up quit a bit but iti s still cheaper then importing from say russia or great britain or any other place .
besdies look what happened when we baught those british subamrines…remember that fiasco?
Ping i hope your not one of those pesimistic negative poeple who no matter what will never be happy no matter how far to the right we shift.
And i agree i want a reduction like by say 30% in govornment period, I want a reduction in spending but even i understand that that stuff is big here in canada the lefties will scream murder if harper were to just start slashing those thing’s ..it was o.k. when a liberal govornemnt does it but not a conservative one. never forget that. so harper just has to play his cards carfully and it will take time and it will take probly two or three majority conservative govornemnts. NO joke think of how many years of lefty garbage we have had to endure it aint gonna just dissapear the first two years of a majority conservative govornment.
Relax be patient it will be a slow painful process i know but it will happen .
AGAIN i have to remind you parliment doesn ot start until june 2nd , so layton harper, boob rae no one is in ottowa right now do you get that yet ? PARLIMENT DOES NOT START UNTIL JUNE SECOND !!!!!!
http://www.mapleleafparty.ca/2011/04/22/debt-by-a-million-novelty-cheques/
I would start with the regional economic development agencies.
@ Paul in Calgary:
HEAR HEAR in regards to Canada buying the F-35 which CANADA HELPED DEVELOP!!!
Look folks, as far as fighter planes go, do we really want to buy Russian?? The Lada of the skies? I could perhaps live with Swedish, British, or French planes, but seriously, why would we not buy North American, and have our forces highly compatible with the US forces. Also, we stand to gain more from further development, service, etc. Why would we not buy our own planes?
The best planes cost money. Pure and simple. They said the same things about the F-14, F-15, F-18, and F-16 back in the day. Too complicated, too expensive, etc. The only mistake Canada made back then is that we should have bought the F-15 like the Air Force wanted us to.
People forget the fiasco of Chrietien cannceling the Helecopters with the sddendant deaths of the sea king personel. We also had to forfeture mega bucks for not going threw with the deal.
I agree there are departments or ministrys that the country can do without, but more important is to cut the fat away in all departments. The beurocracy is bloated, inneficient and poisonous on these organizations. The people on the groud are continually struggling to perform their function under the yoke of paper work and useles protocols just to justify the positions in the beurocracy. This was best illustrated by Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles, “We must protect our phoney baloney jobs, gentlemen”. It is time to change that and let the people who actually deliver their services do their job.
The announcement today the DND will trim 2100 public service positions is a first step. It has been reported that there are 4 civil servants to each soldier.
ya know paul, you had me convinced by the quip about it aint gonna disappear in 2 years but then you had to make it personal.
I did not make it personal.
I directed my responce about the fighter jet’s and the whole big govornemnt thing your way becasue you made some good point’s but your freaking out and it is not even a month into harpers term.
But ALOT of people in here want everything done instantly like as soon as it was announced on election night that harper won a majority ….
I did not mean to make it “personal” at all but alot of people in here are spouting off like harper should just instantly slash everything cut everything right now and that’s that….so what if he has not made any announcement’s ..that is becasue parliment has not resumed .
AND alot of people in here not just you (sorry if you think i was singling you out) seem to forget that small but very critical fact .
So i will say it one last time.
PARLIMENT DOES NOT RESUME UNTIL JUNE 2ND!!!
@ PING
we need to stick together , every one of us becasue everything no matter how big or small will be destroyed if any and i say ANY other govornment get’s in in 2015 .
I feel your pain brother/sister it really can’t come soon enough but harper needs to convinve over the next four years the fence sitting liberals and NDP the ones who were deciding who to vote for right until they walked into the voting booth …those are the ones who will be key and any sudden movement’s may push them the other way ….and harper knows that so he has got to win them over win there confidence and grow his base of supporters with real hard evidence of fiscal responsibility , stabilizing the economy creating job’s if he can make any kind of an uptick by the next election he will get another majority and he will start to be able to move about a little more freely , and once people start to see and reep the benifit’s of his policies he will be in a better position to ween them off of the govornemnt tit!!
I ment nothing personal ping at all i have learned alot from just your comment’s an here so thank you!!
Some ideas for cutting $20B from the budget. Read this article by Andrew Coyne.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/25/how-to-cut-20-billion-from-spending-without-really-trying/
Paul: “…between lockheed martin , macdonald dougals, and one other company…”
I believe it was General Dynamics.
And as Karl accurately pointed out, why would be be opening bidding on a project in which we are already partners and will share in the technology?
However, there was nothing wrong with the Victoria class submarines when the British offered them. What went wrong was the Chretien government taking more than two years to make up its mind over them. This resulted in considerable damage to them, all of it unnecessary. This was not a tendering process. These were surplus subs. They were and still are the cheapest option for Canada to acquire front line submarines. It was the government’s foot-dragging that made them more costly and caused the need for extensive repair.
Favill: “Hate to say it, but a country’s ability to fight and its willingness to do is still the measure of its economic might/prosperity and its international standing.”
Bang on the money. We’ve allowed the subcontracting of too much of our defense to the United States for far too long.
The idea that we should sacrifice blood and treasure for “international standing” is really quite disgusting. Why don’t you go pay for it yourselves?
I don’t see why Canada needs the ‘best’ planes. It would be so much cheaper just to get refurbished from an ally or even Russia.
we need to stick together , every one of us becasue everything no matter how big or small will be destroyed if any and i say ANY other govornment get’s in in 2015 .
LMAO It’s like a narrator to a children’s show!
I am guessing that the “shelf life” of refurbished planes would make them more expensive in the long run. And in military matters, one should not be buying someone else’s cast offs. If it ever comes to a fight, every little advantage matters.
If we want to continue to lay claim to our massive Arctic territories, we have to be prepared to patrol them. In the air, on the ground, and at sea. Russia is trying to lay claim to the North pole. The US is pressing their claim to a border line north of the Alaska-Yukon border in the Beaufort sea that would rob Canada of potential oil and gas riches. They have also tried to claim that the Northwest Passage is an international waterway. Even tiny Denmark is attempting to chip away at our borders!! A country that cannot exert a meaningful military presence over it’s own territory soon loses it. And if our pilots have to intercept another nation’s aircraft as it flies over our territory (as happened countless times during the cold war), then I would rather not have them flying planes that someone else wore out first.
And I also think that we should build some sort of nuclear powered ice-breaking surface military ships so that we can exert our claims to the Northwest Passage by being able to navigate it with warships. And if we are going to have ships on the water, we need to be able to give them top-cover.
@libertariansaresmarter
“The idea that we should sacrifice blood and treasure for “international standing” is really quite disgusting. Why don’t you go pay for it yourselves?”
I did. Two tours in Afghanistan one friend killed another very seriously injured–she’s got some metal parts in her leg now. I’ve been shot at, rocketed and mortared. However, the respect garnered from the American and British soldiers who were beside me is something that can’t be bought with money or with beer. At the nation-state level, it brings nations that fight together in a common cause against a common enemy much closer to each other and diplomatically they tend to help each other out. This has always been the case with the exception of the USSR.
With respect to the planes. I joined the CF in 1985, the CF-18s as a platform were already 10 yrs old by then–but they were the “new” Canadian fighter planes. Would you drive on the 401 Hwy in a car built in the late 70s, used daily in all sorts of weather and pushed to its limits at a 120km/hr? Could you incorporate safety and engineering features standard in today’s cars into the late 70’s model without incurring huge costs?
Paying for the best up front is cheaper in the long run. There was a flurry of purchases of major military equipment when bullets started flying and stuff started blowing up for real in Afghanistan…because the crap with which the Liberals had equipped the CF was not capable of doing the job the Liberal Gov’t of Canada (at the time) asked our soldiers to do. The military eqpt provided failed the most crucial test–battle.
And for your edification, the job of Canadian soldiers is not to die—but to execute the foreign policy determined by the Canadian Government and in so doing reach the goals determined by the Gov’t.
favill