On clunkers
Now that the first snarky response to Andrew Steele's latest HST sales pitch is out of the way, let's deal with the more substantive problem with Steele's most recent posts. Steele tries to rely on a report by the University of Calgary's Jack Mintz as demonstrating that the HST (along with a number of other moves by the McGuinty government) will create 591,000 "net new jobs" over the next decade, and argues that the report will fundamentally change the terms of Ontario's debate over the HST.

On false equivalencies
Shorter Andrew Steele:"Cutting corporate taxes" (by transferring costs to mere citizens) is the new "saving childrens' lives".

Musical interlude
Weekend Players - Into the Sun

The reviews are in
Don Martin:It takes considerable effort to become a complete embarrassment.Congratulations Senator Mike Duffy, you've finally done it.With his wild rant on a CBC national politics show this week, the television icon has accomplished the difficult feat of offending all those in his parliamentary orbit -- his former journalistic occupation, the Conservative party, senators, MPs and even the prime minister who appointed him....It's not easy for me to write this because Mike Duffy was a personal friend until I deri

On perpetual campaigns
So what can we take away from the Sask Party's announcement that just halfway through its mandate, it's already making the 2011 election its main focus? From my standpoint, there are two crucial points worth mentioning.First, it said enough about the weakness of the Sask Party's caucus when Wall named Bill Boyd as Minister for Everything the Government Cares About. But apparen