Hi Bob
I notice that the weather these days doesn't favour e-bike touring
so you may have time to dabble over Murray Dobbin if only to put to rest
the Western claim that we Easterners never give them a hearing.
His blog starts October with two interesting and challenging pieces
one on Trudeau and one on Chavez.
I don't quite know what to make of them yet but he poses demanding questions.
Cheers, Ed B.
Thanks Ed ..... Murray makes some interesting and valid statements that are brought more to the front by the intrusion of CNOOK and Petronas bids for Canadian resources. The Harper government claims they will clarify "net benefit" so all potential foreign investors will know the rules. If the Harper regime had a clue on what they were doing we would have had rules in place after the "Potash" fiasco. The feds told us that the deal was not of "net benefit" to Canadians when in reality it was the Conservatives fear of Brad Wall similarly when the Quebec government rejected the Lowes bid for Rona.
"Net Benifit" simply put is "what best serves the Harper Regime" and not of interest to Canada or Canadians.
Murray states in part....
A couple of other examples come to mind – nationalizing the oil industry and establishing a public, commercial bank to compete directly with the big six private banks. Outrageous? Impossible? Any time soon – of course. But even a cursory examination of the crises that face Canada suggests that these ideas are not unthinkable – they will actually be necessary to save the country from further rapid decline to a de-industrialized and corrupt petro state.
His point on the Fraser Institute is well taken in light of their latest statement about BC's offshore oil.
Seriously, who in this government has the intelligence to determine what is the true meaning of "net benefit" and if they could find someone trustworthy Harper would ridicule and belittle them.
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