You were rather well defended I must say.:^)

A couple of the bloggers aren't lawyers and I'm glad a fuss has been made. Glad you got out of your swipes unscathed.

Warren Kinsella has his blog he can do his spin on, I'm not sure what is gained by legally threatening others either.

The comments at E Group were interesting, and a lot of posts that spun off make a lot of sense.
But the comment section has kind of reached a saturation point and is kind of degenerating.
It will be interesting to see if anyone else comes forward. Blog on!

This little spat makes me think ... I detect that the political debate in Canada is descending to a level of thuggishness. And I'm not talking about the conservative bloggers.

And here's why:

Back in the good old days of Trudeaupia there was lots of money to be had from tax receipts from a strong industrial base and from easy borrowing on Wall Street. Everything was happy and optimistic then (Everybody Sing Together: Caaaa-naaaa-daaaa!)

Now there is increasing desperation, especially from the governing class. Paul Martin claims he has a "surplus", yet the provincial governments which actually have to provide all the welfare and health care are going broke. The industrial base is in tatters, and if you think that with empty factories we will still have a healthy services sector (banks, insurance, etc.), guess again!

Inflation is just romping along which means the middle class and their meagre savings are getting eaten away. The federal, provincial and municipal governments are being exposed more and more for the dishonest, rapacious, thugs that they are. Public service unions are little different from gangsters.

Everything positive that the government tries turns a cropper, as the British would say: from "improving" health care, to "upgrading" the Armed Forces, to "modernizing" the civil service.

The logical thing to do is get back to basics, i.e. cut taxes, cut benefits, and hope to god that Canadians have enough spunk left to start their own businesses, improve their own lives and take care of their own families. But that would be a nasty turn of events for the people who are controlling the government right now, because Small Government means Small Salaries, Small Patronage, and Small Kickbacks. Hence, the thuggishness and desperation.

So how long will we put up with it? And just between you and me, I don't really think that voting for Stephen Harper will solve anything. I say, break up the country along the natural cleavage lines, and thank god that our armed forces are too small to allow any blood to be shed over it.

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