The NDP's insane climate martyrdom plans would turn Canada into a sub-Third-World hell-hole

And have zero impact on climate:

Rachel Notley's disgraceful climate action "survey"

Ezra exposes it all:



If they don't already, Albertans will seriously rue the day that they elected Notley's radical wrecking crew. If they have any real sense Albertans will compensate by shutting out the NDP (and Liberals) in October.

See also: Scary NDP Climate Change Survey Reveals Their Desired Policies

Mulcair - "a self-righteous, even simple-minded politician"

Robert Fulford reviews Mulcair's autobiography:

Tom Mulcair has proven himself a talented opposition leader but close scrutiny of his written words can only detract from his reputation. Strength of Conviction (Dundurn Press), an autobiography and a campaign kickstart, gives the impression that Mulcair is self-righteous and simple-minded, even for a member of the New Democratic Party. ...

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 That's just for openers!! Ouch!

Thomas Mulcair is a loon - he's "proud" of helping terrorists keep their Canadian citizenship

Perhaps not surprisingly, The Toronto Star agrees with Mulcair (or is it the other way around?):

Stephen Harper’s government is wrong to consider stripping Canadian dual citizens of their citizenship for committing treason and terror. ... 

... The Tory model would set up an odious and hard-to-justify distinction between Canadian-born criminals whose citizenship can’t be revoked even for treason and terror, and naturalized citizens whose citizenship can be lifted. ...

Lest we forget - what the NDP stands for

BC Blue:

In a bar called The Deck in the High Country Inn, the NDP gather every Friday to celebrate communist dictatorships and have even painted a symbolic Red Square on the floor of which they proudly posted a video on YouTube ..."

Good grief! Nostalgia for communism and the Soviet Union, in Canada?! These clowns are either brainless tools or willfully blind, maybe both. From R.J. Rummel’s "Death by Government":

61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State
35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
1,670,000 Murdered: The Vietnamese War State

That Soviet National Anthem the moronic Dippers sing so enthusiastically is littered with such obvious propagandist lies as “Long live our People, united and free.”

To think that the NDP is our Official Opposition and that BC is about to put them back in power.

It’s obscene! Lest we forget what the NDP stands for. 

And, can we expect the MSM to give this any notice at all, like, say, they have for relatively mild instances of political incorrectness committed by a couple of Wildrose Party members?

What's next for the progressive left? The LDP?

With Mulcair at the NDP helm and Rae leading the Liberals would there be a merger? Mulcair denies it but both have mused about "uniting progressives" and so has Jean Chretien.  With a former provincial Liberal heading the NDP and a former provincial Dipper running the Liberals I'm guessing the idea would get serious consideration. But we'll just have to wait and see.

If it happened the new, merged party would need a new name. I'm betting it would be the "Liberal Democratic Party". Both get to keep their names, the oldest party's name comes first, "NDP" is promoted two letters in the alphabet and finally gets rid of the worn out "New".  You heard it here first.

ATM fees - political micro-meddling

About a buck-and-a-half is the fee for using another bank’s autoteller machine (ATM). If the machine belongs to your own bank there’s no charge. Sounds reasonable to me.

But again this week, NDP leader Jack Layton was in the news demanding banks be legislated into reducing or eliminating ATM user fees. Can’t have those big, successful, profitable banks charging their customers for services! It’s not the commie-Canuck way. And, depressingly, finance minister Jim Flaherty had already felt compelled, by Jack’s previous press coverage, to send the banks a letter requesting they explain their fees.

Advocating this kind of micro-meddling in banks’ affairs borders on the lunatic. A short-list of reasons springs to mind:

- bank machines cost money to own and operate
- using an ATM is strictly voluntary - no one is forced to use them
- using another bank’s ATM is rarely necessary, almost always a convenience
- government micro-management of ‘free’ enterprise is folly, and a very slippery slope

I know Layton and his dopey Dippers just love to play Robin Hood heros to the ‘little-people’. But if he really wanted to help he would campaign to get government’s greasy fingers out of our pockets. Every time I spend $100 of hard-earned, already income-taxed money I get hit with mandatory additional taxes of $6 to $13 (and much more for beer and gas). A fee of, at most, $1.50 (plus tax?) for voluntary use of an ATM is a comparative bargain.

Governments do have a role in regulating banking and ensuring they don’t behave anti-competitively. However, mickey-mouse fiddling with ATM fees is ridiculous. But if the banks do cave in and cut these fees, expect to see fee 'adjutments' elsewhere to compensate.