Here’s how to understand and escape from 2020’s protests, pandemic, and an erratic president. A few suggestions to feed your mind and soul.
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Milton Friedman spent his lifetime educating the public and politicians against the anti-reality economics of the political and ideological left, but they are cited sympathetically in Abbott’s book.
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When those intent on turning a temporary public health measure—mask-wearing—into a freedom issue akin to the American Revolution, they fail to make proper distinctions and direct their energies to actual, useful ends.
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This debate became acute after the August 2020 poisoning of Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which German Chancellor Angela Merkel, among others, blamed on the Kremlin.
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That $493 billion in oil and gas taxes paid for a lot of school lunches, kids’ clothes, runners, after-school lessons and much else.
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Lesson One: Tyranny is a permanent feature of humanity and is not going away.
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Churchill was a classic liberal and saw individuals as individuals first, which meant he often, eventually defaulted to positions that took into account the needs of those too often ignored by his aristocratic colleagues.
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Although the Chief Constable of the Vancouver police diligently enforced liquor laws, that responsibility nevertheless did not “prevent him from ensuring the Churchills were well-provided with liquor.”
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Some American states have benefitted from Canada’s natural gas stagnation.
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Average British Columbia premiums for motorists were only cheaper than Alberta in one year out of twenty—and by two bucks.
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Most “local” economies greatly depend on investment and purchases from somewhere else.
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From First Nations to federal finances, any sober analysis about the importance of oil and gas to Canada’s future — GDP, jobs, incomes, or tax revenues — cannot be understated.
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What world population declines may do to environmental debates
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The reality is that domestic oil consumption needs will be met either by Canadian sources, or with imported foreign oil.
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The population of the Lower Mainland has grown. It’s not unreasonable to expect infrastructure needs to grow with it.
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As to where the $477 billion in foreign oil imports between 1988 and 2019 ended up, fully $225 billion or 47 per cent of all foreign oil flowed into Quebec
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Canada, with a mere one per cent increase in oil and gas investment between 2009 and 2017 was the other exception to the recovery in oil and gas investment worldwide
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History matters: By the late 1980s and early 1990s, even liberal Americans were tiring of the excuse-a-day approach to crime on the streets and those who explained away crime with endless “root cause” theories.
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An Alberta politician recently gloated over Thatcher’s death before apologizing. Useful fact: Thatcher’s 11-year time in power resulted in 1.7 million more Britons employed, compared with just 600,000 new jobs in France in the same period.
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Keeping the Paris commitment will not be cost-free and existing policies lack sufficient means to the promised Paris end.
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