Comments on: Local column

By: C. B. Innes

C. B. Innes — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:20:48 +0000

Leasa and Catherine,

I see that La Presse is reporting today that Ms Couillard’s ties to criminal elements are more recent than first thought and go back to 2005, which would be months before she started dating Bernier by September 2007.

She had live-in relationships with three different criminals that the media have uncovered. One has to wonder why someone with such a fascination with criminals is suddenly dating a politician and why she is considered such an icon to be defended by the new Conservatives.

She may not personally have been convicted of a crime but she certainly had a fixation on criminals.

By: Canuck

Canuck — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:32:24 +0000

Am totally disgusted with how business is done. My brother-in-law worked for a company that was family owned for many years and earned good money. He retired and is now drawing his pension. The head of the family died and the company was sold about ten years ago to US owners. The new owners sucked the company dry, laid off workers gradually so that less than 50 now remain. They just announced a major layoff, but because less than 50 are affected, no severance is paid. Some of the laid-off workers have worked there up to 35 years and won’t get a dime in severance.

That loophole needs plugging yesterday!

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:36:42 +0000

By brain on 05.13.08 11:48 am

I know your comments were directed to CB but I wanted to point out what I included the the post listed below.

By Greg on 05.12.08 11:57 am

If government was serious and and had a handle on reality why wouldn’t they have tackled these things already?

They prefer to implement complicated measures which are often beyond their ultimate control and assume the co-operation of corporate entities and the effectiveness of enforcement. That which is relative to regulations, which can be easily changed. In the end, far too many of these grand schemes go awry and that is where history comes into the equation.

i.e. the Metric system. I read a report on how this came to be. Many years later a member of the Trudeau caucus said it came up at the end of long caucus meeting and was the pet project of one individual. Everyone was tired, there was little research done by the majority and it seemed like a good idea at the time. My teenage Son computes roughly half in metric and half in Imperial. All these years later.

Or we could talk gun registry or health care or Unemployment Insurance, Farm related/Quota programs or?????

My point is, the more complicated a scheme, the less likely it’s success. In the case of Gov. in particular and the costs are extraordinary. The more simple the plan and it’s implementation, the better. The KISS principle.

The Highway of good intentions is littered with programs and policies that never worked according to their stated intentions, and the recent discussions on food labeling is another good example of that.

P.S. I would have gotten back to you on your previous posts but thought you gone for the week.