Sunday, April 19, 2009

Canadian freedoms are being eroded

Canadian freedoms are being eroded | Blog | Canadian Dimension

(By Mark Spooner) Like thieves coming back night after night to pilfer a warehouse while the watchperson is sleeping, our government and its agencies have been steadily making off with the democratic freedoms that once defined what it is to be Canadian. Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine shows us how the calamity that was 9/11 has emboldened enemies of liberty everywhere to enact repressive policies under the guise of fighting terror, but our own government has now played the terror card with such cavalier frequency that it has become nothing more than an ideological taunt thrown in the face of those with whom it disagrees.


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What's not being reported about Chrysler and the union in Ontario

DTK: McGuinty: Chrysler's Problems are the Union's Fault

... As I explained, the real problem was that Chrysler had never put aside any money for the pensions it had promised its employees. Instead, it now includes the cost of those pensions as part of the current employees' labour cost.

The effect is to make the workers seem expensive relative to those at neighbouring plants when, in reality, they make about the same amount of money.

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