Gosselin: ou les aventures incontourbale d'un super-travailleur dans la pub

Pour y r?pondre ? votre question: oui, il existe plusieurs lois contre le travail ? sept jour sur sept. En fait on les consid?re comme l'une des pierres angulaires de l?gislation sociale d'un pays industralis?. Donc c'est pourquoi ni la comit? ni les comun de mortels peuvent croire que vous avez factur? pour 3678 heures et vous avez personnellement empocher 625 000.

Mieux encore, Guit? avez approuv? de doubler votre taux de facturation. Mais ce qui est curieux c'est l'achat de montres dor?s de la compangie de votre fils et apr?s ?a charger une commission de 17 et quelque chose%. Vous ?tes, sans le vouloir, un autre symbole de la corruption qui guette la partie Lib?rale f?d?rale. Vous concr?tisez de fa?on tr?s facile ? comprendre de comment le gouvernement ? peut d?penser plus de 700 millions de dollars de fa?on douteuse pour fortifier l'unit? nationale.

Absolute majority: the third danger to democracies

Thinking about the Adscam- the English Canadian nickname for the sponsorship scandal- I'm struck by an old oped article written at the Avui wriiten a few weeks before teh Spanish elections. That absolute majorities are a danger to a democracy. The party that enjoys one inevitably loses contact with the citizens and becomes insufferable, prone to err and pass really unpopular legislation that the population neither wants nor desired to go so far.

Although the article discussed Spanish politics, I found many of the insights to be transferable mutatis mutandis to any democracy of advanced industralized countries. Canada is a painful example. The Liberal party's 3 consecutive absolute majority have caused it to rot completely. It's not just Adscam but a whole host of really odious decision like the 700 million dollars for the secret slush fund for party faithful national unity finances, law C-250, the 2 billion for the totally useless gun registry and so on and so on.

Absolutely majorities are as dangerous to democracies as corruption and totalitarianism. I'm deeply concerned that even if the federal Liberals faced electoral oblivion like the Conservatives in '93, the new government will be very hardpressed to carry out the reforms to clean up the corruption as well as to prevent future rot. The fault lies with we the voters. We're the ones who deluded ourselves in giving absolute majorities to parties throughout our history. Perhaps a few decades of minority governments will be salutary.

Le fond s?cret de l'unit? nationale: gaspiller l'argent

Siria: ?Qu? ha passat?

Ahir, hi hagu? un esdevenemament molt estrany. Hi havia una explosi? a Damas en un edifici que hostejava l'ONU en el passat per? que era buit. La for?a de l'explosi? dany? lleguerament l'ambaixada canadenca. Un pol? i una ciutadana moriern en l'atemptat i les forces de seguretat han pogut matar 2 dels terroristes i capturar 1 apr?s un tiroteig.

Fons officials pretenen que Al Qu'ida havia perpetuat l'atemptat. No m'ho crec. Siria es un pais molt controlat ?dhuc pels estandards mig-orientals. Amb una vigil?ncia ferrera i omnipresent, no em convenc massa que una cel?lula hagi pogut amassar explosius i armes sense que els serveis d'expionatge dom?stics no s'en donguis compte. L'?ltima vegada que hi havia un atemptat contra Assad pare, el r?gim obliter? el poble d'Hama en 1982. Segons alguns fons uns 20 000 persones moriren. Havia dit que eren el r?gim que l'havia perpetuat. Els pares s'enfadaren em mi per? em n'es igual. Hi ha una pe?a montada pero distreure l'atenci? americana contra el r?gim com a patrocinador del terrorisme.