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PQ Wolves Want A Vote On Eating Anglo Sheep For Dinner

And so all things come to pass.

Thankfully, the most repugnant thing in Canada today has come to pass, at least for the time being, as the Quebec PQ Government, headed by socialist xenophobe Pauline Marois, heads to the polls on 7 April.

Rebelling Against A Red Media

Keith Topolski looks at how Rob Ford can admit to drug use, yet retain steady approval as Toronto Mayor.

 Basic human psychology tells us that people don’t like to be wrong. They don’t like to be told they’re wrong, either.

The Power of the Parti Quebecois Compels You!

Keith Topolski examines the latest bout of xenophobia to spew forth from Quebec.

 

The most memorable line from the classic film Forrest Gump was about a box of chocolates being compared to life. The second most famous line, to my mind at least, was ‘Stupid is as Stupid does’.

English Speakers Not Welcome in English Speaking Nation

Keith Topolski discusses how being an upstanding citizen is being turned into a crime in Quebec.

Ever since the French and English fought over the new continent actually discovered by an Italian, there has been tension in Quebec over who is dominant: Anglophones or Francophones.

Although it has long been established that, for the Anglos, Quebec is the one place in Canada where you are not in the majority on this question, it has not been until recently that Anglophones have been made to feel unwelcome in their own homes.

Common Sense From Canada

Senator Cory Bernardi ask why we are paying double what canadians are for electricity: 

Julia Gillard is right. Electricity bills are rising. However, she is wrong to try to blame the State Governments for the damage being done to household budgets. Her government has pumped tens of billions of dollars into the economy, stifled employment flexibility and imposed new taxes, which have all fuelled cost of living increases. This has been felt by every Australian family and the awareness becomes particularly acute when the utility bills arrive.

I received a cost of living shock of my own this week when my quarterly electricity account appeared in the post. It was nearly 30 per cent higher than the last one. Of course some of that increase was actual usage but most of the rise was due to increased power costs. The group at Tru Energy were even helpful enough to detail exactly what the kWh increases were.

Rate band one rose from $0.236 kWh to $0.28 kWh. Rate band two rose from $0.251 kWh to $0.297. Rate band three went from $0.278 kWh to $0.327 kWh. Foolishly, I am also locked in to a ‘green energy’ contract (an obvious mistake on my part) and get slugged an additional $0.0057 kWh to not save the planet.

Coincidentally, all the above mentioned price increases commenced on 1 July, the very same day the carbon tax came into effect. I am no detective, but it would be easy to deduce that the two are linked. That is certainly the conclusion drawn by a growing majority of Australian families; and it is why Julia Gillard is so desperate to deflect the blame from her ineffective leadership and election perfidy onto the state premiers.

In true Pontius Pilate fashion, Gillard is attempting to wash her hands of the havoc her treacherous tax is having on the mums and dads who struggle to make ends meet every month.

The horror of Australia’s rising electricity prices is compounded when one is made aware of the comparison cost with other like-minded economies. A constituent recently delivered a paper to my office detailing the price of power in Canada.  Depending on where you live, electricity prices range from $0.0694 kWh through to $0.1561 kWh, meaning even the most expensive tariff is around half of what we are currently paying.

The question is, why?

 

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Senator Cory Bernardi is the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader of the Opposition and a Senator for South Australia. 

When Did Fiscal Conservatism Die?

Keith Topolski examines how the world's longest serving conservative government has sold out-or been bought out.

With a provincial election looming by 31 May, Albertans are faced with a unique question: Will the Alberta Government become the longest serving democratically elected government in history?

The ruling Progressive Conservative party has ruled Alberta since 1971, and its predecessor, the conservative Social Credit Party, reigned from 1935.

Not for 77 years has Alberta been faced with a government that is not of a conservative persuasion.

But is that last statement actually true?

If it's good for Canada, it's good for us

Keith Topolski marks a great day for Canadian free speech.

We have recently seen the disgraces of the Racial Discrimination Act in prosecuting and, indeed, persecuting leading conservative columnist and blogger Andrew Bolt for no other reason than he offended a few delicate petals by calling for an end to racism.

This law is clearly an attempt to shut down debate and needs to be removed.

And indeed, there is hope. And yet again, it comes from the brilliant conservative government in Canada led by Stephen Harper. Courtesy of Ezra Levant in the Toronto Sun, read on to see what is happening in Canada, and what should be happening in Australia.

Canada: A True Example of Fiscal Responsiblity

Keith Topolski celebrates Canada's real downsizing of its Public Service.

 Humphrey Appleby would be appalled at what is going on in Canada right now. Granted the performance bonus being offered to Departmental bosses would be tempting, it still means drastic cuts to the Federal Bureaucracy.

 And when I say cuts, I'm not kidding.