Two Different Worlds
On one page, we have the amusing spectacle of an egghead asking for more taxes. Only a fully tenured academic could ask the federal government to raise the GST and HST. Must be nice. What an idiot.
On an earlier page, we have the hard truth of the Canadian economy and the lack of political will that embraces it: ONE IN TEN CHILDREN IN CANADA LIVE IN POVERTY.
This should not be a news item featured on page three on a Monday morning.
In one of the richest and most peaceful sovereign states in the world this disgrace should be front and centre until we do something real to change those numbers.
Twenty years ago, Parliament voted unanimously to eliminate this scourge within a decade. So much for the vote.
National Child Care has been on the agenda for at least the last ten years and we are no closer to it than ever.
Times have changed.
Mommy and Dada are both working.
They have to. This is not a "life style" choice. This is a bare necessity.
A 70-year old falling down wood frame bungalow on the treeless east side of Vancouver costs just under a million dollars.
The minimum wage in B.C. should have been $10 ten years ago.
So let the politicians and their Econ whores tell you that the HST is good for you.
Let the academic elite ask for more taxes.
Then let them take a starving kid to lunch.
