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		<title>Ignatieff decides to give up on Alberta</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/651</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Michael Ignatieff has decided to give up on Alberta when it comes to elections. He is taking a stand against oil tankers of the BC coast, proposing a ban on such tankers.    The Liberals clarified: Ms. Murray indicated the Liberals are against large supertankers and not the many other ships that sail B.C. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really, Mr. Flaherty?</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/647</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing like destroying the incentive to work hard and save for your own retirement&#8230; In Victoria Friday Mr. Flaherty fanned the flames further when he told executives that citizens who have saved enough for retirement will eventually be asked to help those who haven’t. So, what you are saying is that if I save lots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flaherty is wrong on CPP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Flaherty, the Canadian federal finance minister, has posited in a letter to his Ontario counterpart, that perhaps the premiums that all Canadian workers (and their employers) pay should be increased to increase the amount of money Canadians are saving for retirement. This is a very bad idea. First, increasing payroll taxes is a known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sole-sourcing military hardware is OK</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/639</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government of Canada is proposing to purchase 65 F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft from Lockheed-Martin, to replace the now 30 year old CF-18 fleet. Boeing, who lost the Joint Strike Fighter competition (their X-37 was rejected by the Pentagon when compared to Lockheed-Martin&#8217;s X-35), is trying to sell us the now 15 year old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t work in this province&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/636</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another example of interprovincial trade restrictions that exist for no reason other than to prevent competition and create work for government bureaucrats. Contemporary Security Canada, which also provided private security for the Vancouver Olympic Games, was selected by the RCMP to provide approximately 1,100 private security guards to screen pedestrians throughout the summits in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliament is wrong on expenses</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/624</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 22:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the parties in Canada&#8217;s Parliament are wrong on whether to let the Auditor General do a performance audit of MPs expenses.  First because the A-G office has in the past performed such audits (1980 and 1991), but because we know from other jurisdictions (the UK being the most recent and egregious), an awful lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Tories fail again on free trade</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/619</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, there was a report in the Winnipeg Free Press, quoting the Minister of State for Agriculture, Jean-Pierre Blackburn: &#8220;There is a need for new markets for the food sector like any other sector,&#8221; he told The Canadian Press. &#8220;But at the same time we know some specific aspects have to be protected.&#8221; He said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We don&#8217;t need a new &#8220;National Food Policy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/610</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Ignatieff is proposing that the government get MORE involved in the production and sale of food in Canada, to help farmers, help Canadians eat healthier, and improve exports&#8230; Wait, one of the reasons why many Canadian agricultural products aren&#8217;t exported is because of the supply management systems that make Canadian dairy, poultry and eggs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simpson on Supply Management</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/608</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not often agree with Jeffrey Simpson, but he is bang on with his polemic against supply management and how Canada is being shut out of international free trade negotiations by our fanatical defense of poultry, egg and dairy farm protection. As I have always said, supply management simply protects Canadians from lower prices. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owning the podium</title>
		<link>http://www.technicalbard.com/archives/576</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taliesyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While this issue has been hashed over a lot, I felt it was necessary to put in my view. The Own the Podium program has been a huge success, with Canada winning more gold medals than any other country has ever won at the Winter Olympics.  While we didn&#8217;t win the most total medals (the [...]]]></description>
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