Yawn...

Even if I do not subscribe to the general philosiphy of the NDP, I think we need some accountability brought to our reigning liberals. It is a cocky era of liberal politicians "knowing best" that needs to change. Whether it is a gas tax or forestry reform attempt,it is important that the people have a real say in whats going on, and thats not happening. The NDP has to get its act together to be a constructive force and we desperately need a constructive force.
How about taking the carbon tax out of the inflated levels of current fuel taxes?
How about taking the softwood lumber export charge money and sending it directly back to the communities where it came from. We supposedly pay world price for oil, but we pay considerably more for fuel than the US consumer does?
Supposedly our stumpage rates constitute a subsidy to industry and our government agrees with this--it actually rammed it down our throats and continues to do this at the forestry roundtable. Isn't the round table process supposed to try to find ANY solution? Wouldn't it be prudent to review the wonderfull effects of this politically charged softwood agreement?
If our stumpage system constitutes a subsidy than our pitifull oil and gas royalty system does as well.How about an export tax on oil and gas which provides for a carbon tax as well? Drastic yes, but realise the trouble our economy is in and where these things are headed. The free enterprise system is a good thing, until only a few of the largest international corporations run everything, including our governments.There is a point when we can go too far to the right wing politically.

I disagree that free enterprise is right wing. Free enterprise is neither right nor left wing as traditionally defined.

The rise of monopoly capitalism enabled by fractional banking free money allocations is the real source of the corporatism society where the largest globalized corporations run everything.

Free enterprise is the great equalizer of education, infrastructure, and opportunities that encourages competition and the averaging up of the middle class standards.

Many on the right would like to fool you by saying they support free enterprise because they support business, but the reality is they support corporate profits and not the small entrepreneur or aspiring post secondary graduate, or the single income earning family.

The left sells socialism as the answer, but in reality they are a class based ideology that looks to rob from peter to pay paul and not to enable peter and paul to both make their own profits.