Monday, June 7, 2010

Britain To Copy Canada

Canada is making headlines today in Britain after Prime Minister David Cameron announced that what the English need to resolve their fiscal crisis is to be more Canadian. A bank tax isn't going to fix anything, and the economic model that can best rehabilitate and strengthen troubled European financial systems exists right here in Canada. The road to recovery for the British is to emulate the true north strong and free, and I will list that as yet another reason why I am proud to be Canadian and proud to be represented on the World stage by a Prime Minister as competent and astute as Stephen Harper.

Canada is taking a leadership role in this world economic recovery as leaders from other countries look at Canada as a shinning example for how to regulate financial markets and conduct business. What is even more incredible is that we have managed this exemplary recovery in a generally dysfunctional minority Parliament. One could only imagine the horror that would be the Canadian economy had we bee cursed with Prime Minister Stephane Dion in Dec of 2008. We'd have been better off with Prime Minister Celine Dion than Stephanie.

Wait, I screwed that up, can we start over again?

12 comments:

  1. holy crap, do you mean that our brand of soialism is better than that of the uk. wow who'd a thunk it.

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  2. Except that the parts of Canada that he wishes to emulate - strong regulation of the banking system, spending restraint, consumer protection, tight rules on mortgages, as well as getting our finances under control (for which Mulroney does get some credit as well) - are all things that Harper opposed.

    So really you are saying you are very proud of the Liberal Party and what it did during the 1990s. Welcome back from the dark side.

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  3. It was a great clip watching these two Conservatives leader praise each other.

    I think if you listen closely, the Liberal media were crying in the background.

    The Tobin Tax, Eurozone signal currency is losing it cachet.

    China, India and Canada are said stuff it!

    GB, Sweden and Denmark did not follow the rest in adopting the EU currency.

    Where is the political will of the European Union to reign in the "soveriegn debts"

    Cameron-Clegg will have some substantial cuts in government spending and it will be messy.

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  4. A link to the article you refer to would be nice, I would like to read it.

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  5. According to the Ottawa Citizen, it is the Paul Martin deficit-slaying model the Brits are going to copy.

    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/British+Tories+copy+Chr%C3%A9tien+Martin/3121525/story.html

    Not sure how that works, as there are no provinces to download everything to in the UK.

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  6. Hunter, it was a news story on CBC Newsworld. The reporter held up a copy of the British newspaper. I suppose I could have done a search for the online version of the article, but hindsight is 20/20.

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  7. I acknowledge that Paul Martin did some good work as Finance Minister, but he is not the sole architect of our entire banking system. I even used to like Paul Martin once upon a time, until he usurped Chretien and took a hard left turn towards the NDP. I really didn't like how he was in charge of our country's finances during the Sponsorship Program, but hey that's why he lost, right?

    And it wasn't until after Cameron met and talked to Harper about international finance that he decided to adopt the Canadian model. Our Prime Minister deserves some credit.

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  8. Indeed, it wasn't all Martin and especially Chretien but those that have egos and need them stroked in the Liberal party, don't seem to ever paint the ENTIRE picture.

    In fact, Preston Manning was instrumental in many of the cornerstones of the Canadian fiscal and banking architecture. He doesn't get the kudos that he deserves, all the while having misinformation and boxed in 'deficit slaying', 'banking regulations' blah, blah blahs, regularly fixated on like a bloody broken record.

    Well let me tell you; if you were a middle class tax payer, raising a family, it sucked.
    That deficit was slayed on the backs of Canadians, the Provinces, military families and the unemployed, PERIOD!

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  9. Is Cameron also going to raid Britain's Employment Insurance reserves?

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  10. Martin and Chretien raided the EI fund of 50 or 60 Billion,downloaded all the big ticket items like health care that cost us big bucks in taxes onto the provinces and you say England will emulate Martin,LOL they would hang him if he tried that shit in Britain..No,the credit goes 100% to PM Harper and the Conservative Government.They steered us out of the recession with no help from the Liberals who bluntly stated many times that PM Harper will wear this recession.So why the F would you still try to give credit to the FN corrupt Liberals.Are you INSANE.

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  11. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/06/david-cameron-spending-cuts

    The proposed cuts are like those of the Liebrals, except the UK can not dump their deficits on the provinces. It is a good model though, and I hope the CPC will do it again in Canada soon (without the provincial dump).

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  12. http://unambig.com/the-liberal-party-as-the-great-shining-conservative-example/

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