Long time

My apologies to my three dedicated readers for having neglected my posting for so long. A daily update isn't as pleasant a prospect when you're staring down the barrel of presententations, proposals, and essays as big my ego.

So we have a budget bonanza today! The recent Tory budget, while appreciated by a Tory supporter such as myself, has nonetheless received a fair amount of hollow flak from Harper's detractors, One of whom is none other than Dion, who claims the budget ignores the Aboriginal community (psst, Mr. Dion, was it not the last decade of Liberal leadership that put the Aboriginal community in an even worse state? Paul Marting wearing a headdress at one or two Aboriginal functions didn't put the money back into their state funded child care system, did it?)

Check out the latest:

Commentary from The National Post

Commentary from Chief Running Scared himself.

And this from The Post, on a new report that does its best to strike at the root of home-grown extremism.

Good luck on your work, everybody; I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Stolen away from Canadian glory

It seems Stephen Harper's AIDS vaccine iniative may not be as beneficial for Canada as once thought. The well-meaning merger with Bill Gates appears to have come a little too late.

According to reports coming from Atlanta's scientific community, a university there is only a few years away from developing an effective AIDS vaccine. Perhaps the Canadian front will help in speeding the process along, thereby allowing our country a tiny slice of the medical kudos.

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Liberal defence of liberties can go anywhere except across the floor.

You may find it disgraceful that some civil liberties must be forgone to protect innocent Canadians, but how would you consider their suspension in the interest of saving seats in the House?

The National Post is reporting this morning that the two anti-terrorism measures put forward by Stephen Harper's government have been defeated in the Commons (159-124), an event seen by many to be the first major success for Liberal leader Stephane Dion.

The two measures that were proposed involved preventative arrests (basically what it sounds like...arrests/detention of terrorism suspects based on substantial evidence) and investigative hearings (ability of the judge to order someone to court to testify against terrorism activities).

I'm all for the protection of civil liberties, within reason of course. Good people must relinquish one or two of the benefits of a functioning democratic society once in a while to ensure the longevity and protection of that society.

What irks me is the stance of Dion and the Liberal party as some sort of defender of the faith against the usurping Conservative government (and yes, they do believe the last year and a half has been a usurpation).

And I'm ESPECIALLY irked when they back up their statements with the threat to SUE Conservative leaders for having the audacity to suggest that Liberals may have bowed to pressure from outside sources. Apparently freedom of thought and expression is easily denied if one dare accuse a Liberal of being less than morally stable.

Yet accusing a politician of being a Bush lackey is not only acceptable, it's fodder for an election-time ad campaign? Get real.

The detention of terrorism suspects to protect the country comes second to the political ability to shut up one's detractors.

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