Pensions and Bill C-501, Weak Support for Passing Bill C-501 - Governments Should Reduce the Generosity of Public Sector Pensions
Money, Guns, Jets, and Agenda for Parliament Money - Control Spending and Priorize Debt Repayment; Arctic Sovereignty More Important than U.N. Prominence Guns - Government and Opposition Earn Failing Grades for their Debate Performance, Only Slightly Better than the Performance of the Registry Itself Fighter Jet Purchase - the Right Decision
Provincial Deficits and Debt Loads: Cut Spending Across the Board, Privatize Some Healthcare Functions, Say CEOs and Business Leaders
BP Gulf Disaster - BP and Obama Performed Badly; Gulf Fisheries and Tourism, Oil and Gas Developers in Sensitive Areas, BP, and White House Will All Bear the Brunt
Harper-Flaherty Budget Earns Strong Scores Very Strong Praise for Canada’s Leadership in Lower Taxes and Abolition on Tariffs for Manufacturing Inputs; Concern about Longterm Debt; Division of Opinion about Whether Harper - Flaherty and Chretien - Martin Budgets Are Significantly Different
NL Premier Danny Williams Gets Business Panel Support; Williams’ Surgery in U.S. Seen as Less Hypocritical than Prime Minister Martin’s Use of Private Medicine in Canada; Support for Private Medicine Now Outpolls Government Healthcare Monopoly More than 3:1
Pre-Budget Advice to Flaherty: Less Worry about Deflation and Less Support for Spending, Top Spending Recommendations - Pensions/RSPs and National Debt Paydown; Top Cut Recommendation—the Environment
Chinese/Indians to Outperform Global Economy, U.S./Russians/Arabs to Underperform, Japan and W. Europe in Between
