Higher gas taxes, increased mandatory CPP contributions, higher property taxes and of course income taxes are a full frontal attack on your cost of living.  The question is – what are you getting for the extra you’re paying?

After decades we’re still talking about eradicating poverty, affordable housing and homelessness to name just a few of the regularly occurring problems.  But what if the goal was never to solve them and instead is to show our own great goodness by talking about them.

Opponents of Kinder Morgan or the Coastal Gaslink and the Kinder Morgan expansion don’t care if the economy loses $100 billion or a $10 trillion or how much government revenues suffer in derailing the oil and gas industry – but the rest of us should.

Sure spending a $1000 on a whale watching cruise and calling a tsunami awareness exercise is outrageous but why the lack of outrage over equally absurd and questionable spending of our tax dollars?

Can you think of any endeavor in society that has a lower standard of integrity than politics? What most fail to realize is that there are major social and financial consequences to the erosion of trust in government.