Brian Lilley

Condoms for convicts - taxpayers pay thousands

A good debate to be had here. Is it a good idea or bad idea for taxpayers to pay more than $100,000 for condoms for prisoners? Whether you agree or disagree, we are all paying. The Peterborough Examiner has...

MPs to review airport security

Following a series of stories about airlines failing to properly screen all passengers before they board planes, the commons public safety and national security committee has been recalled to examine the issue, MPs from all parties have been notified of...

Are we subsidizing the break-up of our own country?

The release of political fund raising numbers for all the national political parties this week has sparked the debate once again over the per-vote subsidy. While the Conservatives, Liberals, NDP and even the Green Party bring in millions from...

Gilles Duceppe and Pat Martin: Still bigots, still creepy

Talk about a couple of politicians that give me the creeps. I don’t know why anyone would have anything to do with Gilles Duceppe or Pat Martin, to paraphrase Martin himself. Duceppe, the Bloc Quebecois Leader started his...

Junketpalooza: G20 to draw more delegates than Olympics says PM

The general reaction of Canadians to the $1 billion cost of security for the G8 and G20 meetings has been, "You're spending what?" On the left and the right, although not within our government, there is...

Red Cross is training the thugs that kill our troops

You’ll have to forgive me for not being over the moon at news that the Red Cross is training Taliban fighters in proper first aid and supplying them with kits. For the past four years or so I...

Bilingualism law could divide nation over the court

If Quebec were independent there would be no discussion about a bilingual Supreme Court, that’s one of the new arguments from the Bloc Quebecois. The fight for a bilingual high court went to a new level Tuesday as...

Rise of the religious right in Canada, a paranoid tale

I was sitting at a table in the Westin’s restaurant having coffee with a few people when every few minutes someone would stop by to say hello and ask, “Is that the book?” The Westin Hotel...

Britain votes on and Canada refuses to discuss immigration

Today Britons head to the polls to elect a new government and new will be a likely outcome. After 13 years of Labour rule it appears Gordon Brown will be sent packing; the question is, will David Cameron squeak out...

Canada's anti-free speech law will remain on books

It’s been denounced by left and right on talk radio, in newspapers and been savagely attacked in the blogosphere. The Conservative Party of Canada has passed a policy resolution calling for the government they currently lead, to do...

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