The story of Europe's pampered cows is a familiar one but always worth retelling. Each head of cattle in Europe gets a subsidy from the taxpayer worth $2.20 a day at a time when half the world's population - 3 billion people in all - scrapes by on an income of less that that.
Canada is not much better.
I wonder what will come from negotiations between Quebec and Ottawa about Quebec's international aspirations?
Stronach on the need for better debate on post-secondary education policy:
I would like to see that we engage Canadians and that we elevate the level of debate around the issue of education to the same level that health care has had," Ms. Stronach said. "It's so important to future competitiveness and for securing investment in this country.
The second part of her statement is fine, but the first part is silly. It's the willingness to fund PSE that needs to be increased, not the level of debate. For that matter, the level of debate on health care was and continues to be poor, with some exceptions.
I think Martin's speech today in New York was a good idea. Stressing the cost to American homebuilders is good strategy. Of course, like most dumping and subsidy issues, the losers on the American side are widely distributed and the winners on the American side are concentrated and organized. Softwood lumber can be solved in basically two ways: through government action in Canada (changing how we set stumpage fees) or through government action in the US. I'm not convinced that a speech in New York is reaching the key people on the US side, but I don't know the legislative geography on this issue very well. It won't make things worse.
Wasteful spending suggests a terrible attitude towards public money. Lots of expenses are perfectly reasonable, but Joe Volpe's pizza dinners are not. I remember that Preston Manning didn't want to move into Stornoway. Sigh.
A split of the Internet into two or more networks could be bad news.
I might know someone who worked on a project similar to the one mentioned in this article about a system that replicates strings of simple electronic devices from random parts floating on a cushion of air.
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