“Canada’s EI system is not only inequitable, it discourages labour mobility and encourages dependency, even while thousands of jobs are unfilled in areas of high unemployment.” ...Winnipeg Free Press

 “Canada’s EI system is not only inequitable, it discourages labour mobility and encourages dependency, even while thousands of jobs are unfilled in areas of high unemployment.”  ...Winnipeg Free Press

Thusly, an editorial writer for the Winnipeg Free Press, cites several current Harper conservative myths in a cheerleading editorial backing the efforts of Mr Harper and his minions to punish repeat users of the Employment Insurance program.

 “This railroading version of democracy is tragic for Canada.” ... MP Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for a west coast constituency, and leader of the Green Party, has been known to speak her mind in times past as a tireless advocate for the Sierra Club and led the fight on innumerable occasions when called upon to defend some priceless bit of the environment.

“This railroading version of democracy is tragic for Canada.” ... MP Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for a west coast constituency, and leader of the Green Party, has been known to speak her mind in times past as a tireless advocate for the Sierra Club and led the fight on innumerable occasions when called upon to defend some priceless bit of the environment.
She hasn’t changed much. She is still the authoritative voice for those who believe the environment was not put in place by the creator for the purpose of having Stephen Harper tear it apart, enriching the economy, or at least the richest part of the economy, now known around the world as the “1 percenters.”
She wears the epithets of the governing Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) with ease and grace, making others proud to be referred to along with her, as extremists, radicals, money launderers and enemies of the state.

The man of honour thinks of his character, the inferior man of his position.” ... Confucius

I fought my way through seven kilometres of hell on the highway, that incredibly treacherous slice of Trans-Canada Highway Sunday morning, still quivering from the same passage the other way just the day before on our way to the mainland.
As has happened every time I have negotiated passage through the Bonshaw Hills, whether in heat of summer or in icy and snowy time of winter (when we used to have a real winter), I was left shaken and in a cold sweat, my fingers aching from having clenched the steering wheel so tightly.
We pulled over to the side of the road for a few moments so that good wifey Barbara could unpeel my fingers from the steering wheel, and we looked into each other’s eyes.
We had survived. We had made it through once again.

“The man of honour thinks of his character, the inferior man of his position.” ... Confucius

I fought my way through seven kilometres of hell on the highway, that incredibly treacherous slice of Trans-Canada Highway Sunday morning, still quivering from the same passage the other way just the day before on our way to the mainland.  

 “Quit the road Ghiz, or you’ll be in power no more, no more. 

Quit the road Ghiz, or you’ll be in power no more.” ... Author unknown

“Quit the road Ghiz, or you’ll be in power no more, no more.
Quit the road Ghiz, or you’ll be in power no more.” ... Author unknown

So they sang on a sunny afternoon at the Provincial Legislature to the tune of “Hit The Road Jack,” somewhere more than 400 citizens joined in common cause to protest Plan B, the latest dumb idea proposed by the government of Robert Ghiz to straighten out that section of the Trans-Canada Highway that transverses the beautiful Bonshaw Hills.
“Whoa Robert, Oh Robert, don’t treat us so mean,
You’re the meanest old premier we’ve ever seen,
You think what you say goes -
But not what we oppose ...”

“If you govern people by laws; and keep them in order by penalties, they will avoid the penalties, yet lose their sense of shame. But if you govern them by your moral excellence, and keep them in order by your dutiful conduct, they will retain their sense of shame, and also live up to this standard.” - Confucius

The chief activity of the Conservative government in Ottawa and the provincial Liberal government in Prince Edward Island these days seems to be that of doing their level best to contribute to the numbers of the unemployed.
To believe those that we (well, some of us) have chosen to govern us, is to believe that those accorded the power of governance have recently discovered (by what means we do not know) that there are vast numbers of citizens who have earned their daily sufferance by doing little or nothing at all as employees of the public service, and will not be missed in their disappearance from the public rolls.

“If you govern people by laws; and keep them in order by penalties, they will avoid the penalties, yet lose their sense of shame. But if you govern them by your moral excellence, and keep them in order by your dutiful conduct, they will retain their sense of shame, and also live up to this standard.” - Confucius

The chief activity of the Conservative government in Ottawa and the provincial Liberal government in Prince Edward Island these days seems to be that of doing their level best to contribute to the numbers of the unemployed.
To believe those that we (well, some of us) have chosen to govern us, is to believe that those accorded the power of governance have recently discovered (by what means we do not know) that there are vast numbers of citizens who have earned their daily sufferance by doing little or nothing at all as employees of the public service, and will not be missed in their disappearance from the public rolls.