A Government Commission I would like to see.
The Alberta government has, in the past, created blue-ribbon commissions to review oil and gas royalties.
Why not convene a blue-ribbon commission review of Civil Service payment and benefit rates?
The Federal Government did not send lawyers to defend the Trans Mountain Pipeline at a recent Federal Court hearing. I suppose there are number of possible explanations.
Can we turn the clock back on government intervention? Will the pendulum reverse direction and
recover to a mean?
I am beginning to fear not. There are more government takers than providers. The political
pendulum is weighted in the wrong direction with no apparent change of momentum
or direction reversal in the foreseeable future.
This letter is to anyone thinking of voting for Greg Clark in the next election.
I was dismayed to find out from a very good friend, that he was going to vote for Greg Clark.
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