Canada needs to double defense spending, but the Conservatives would scream day and night if anyone raised taxes to pay for any of it.
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At some point, Canada has to have an adult discussion about what goods and services a government of a democracy should be providing, and what we should all expect to pay for those goods and services - and it isn't just defense.  It's public transit, and education, and child care, and policing, and delays in criminal law, and pensions, ... and everything else.
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The cut in the GST was irresponsible nearly to the point of criminality.
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The legislature in Kansas just used a super-majority vote to undo a foolish tax cut.
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They may not be the last jurisdiction to learn that lesson.
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We had our clown in Toronto.  America is rapidly tiring of the orange clown in Washington.  The joke isn't funny any more.
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Eventually the circus leaves town, next day somebody still has to clean up after the horses and elephants.  The adults need to be put back in charge.