Germany Breaking Under Weight of EU: What Parallels with Canada ?

The European Union (EU) has many fascinating parallels with the Canadian federation. Unspoken by many, the most obvious is that it is propped-up primarily by only two members: Germany and Britain in the EU and by Ontario and Alberta (now joined by BC and Saskatchewan) in Canada.
The corruption that fiscal dependency has wreaked on EU [...]

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June 21, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  Comments Closed

To-and-Fro of Canada-EU Free Trade Deal

To: Germany, as a leading member of the EU is also leading the charge on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the benevolent super-state and Europe Canada. German Foreign Minister Westerwelle of the Free Democratic Party (the junior coalition government partner and the most economically liberal – by European standards – in the [...]

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April 8, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  One Comment

Daniel Hannan: The BNP is a Far-Left Party / CBC: BNP is a Far-Right Party

The CBC is reporting that the BNP – which made a breakthrough in yesterdays’s EU elections – is a “far-right party”.  So: nationalizing industries, running factories through ‘workers councils’, protectionism and staunch resistence to privatization is “far right”?  What then is the ‘centre-right’ that opposes bailouts, supports private ownership of industry and promotes free trade?

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June 9, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  5 Comments