To See Ourselves
The great poet Robbie Burns once observed that he wished some power would give us the gift to see ourselves as others see us. A couple of weeks ago political blogger and long time Alberta reporter David Climenhaga did just that when he wrote a column (Grass crime no! Grain crime yes! The inconsistencies of Prime Minister Harper!) on the hypocrisy of Stephen Harper being tough on crime,...
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In the three Federal by-elections just concluded, Elections Canada reports that in two of them, the majority voted against the person who won. Two of the so-called winners were supported by only 37% of the voters because of vote splitting among the other candidates. If you believe representative democracy means majority rule, this amounts to the counterfeit of democracy. Farmers who ran the...
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