In Canada, the US and much of the world, the concept of limited government is as foreign as Martian soil. Ask someone on the street or a friend what is meant by limited government, and you will get contorted faces, quizzical looks and maybe a response like "does it mean they have limited liability." Sadly, no! Governments today somehow believe they are liable, that is, responsible for everything, everything.
That fellow in the picture, Wilfrid Laurier, may have been Canada's last Prime Minister who understood the meaning of limited government.
The video below is my attempt to capture the essence of the Ontario state, its size and scope in under two minutes.
From the excellent parody website: http://thepeoplescube.com/
One of my pet peeves, and there aren't that many, occurs when members of the statist media, or Statists themselves refer to libertarian friendly comments as "ideological." So when Canadian P.M. Stephen Harper, no libertarian he, advocated the removal of the mandatory long form 2011 Census, or the removal of the per voter government subsidy to federal political parties, he was reviled for being ideological. This was coming from statists who somehow felt THEY were not being ideological. Of course not, they were just repeating the media bullshit (we call that the CBC here) and supporting the dominant paradigm.
What is that dominant paradigm? Essentially its one or other form of collectivism, socialist, communist, fascist, Liberal, Conservative, it doesn't matter they are the pretty much all the same expect in degree.
So here is another election ad, this one about windmills and the ideology of environmentalism. It fits in with other forms of collectivism only its green on the outside and kinda red inside. HappyFourth, tomyAmericanreaders!
Notwithstanding high taxes, enormous
expenditures, and many promises, the standard of health care services provided
by successive Ontario governments has continued to deteriorate.Medicare cannot be continued without changes from
the current form of unrestrained demand for “free” services coupled with
central bureaucratic planning and government mandated supply restrictions.Growing private sector involvement will help,
but competitively priced, widely accessible, high quality health care will only
be available for everyone to the extent state involvement is eliminated.Since this cannot be accomplished overnight
without some short term hardship, transition measures will be needed.However, ultimately everyone will be
personally responsible for their own health care in a libertarian free market
system.
