Calgary Libertarian

Albertans and Canada have decided by majority vote to be less economically free. Government bureaucrats have free rein to force public healthcare which, in turn, forces thousands of other restrictions on Albertans. Government bureaucrats are given the power to pick and choose favorites at their leisure. This means they control business decisions (an early stage of fascism). This also means that money will be diverted from the most productive uses to less productive uses. As as result, Albertans have more complexity with a lower standard of prosperity and freedom than they otherwise would enjoy.
Democracy should not have the power to advantage or disadvantage anyone by allowing the majority to vote away the natural rights of people.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Imperial+snubs+Alberta+workers/3032375/story.html

-Wes

Here are some interesting numbers for the USA war on drugs. I focus on the war in the USA because Canada fights the war on drugs mainly on trading and political pressure from the USA. Although there is a very large misguided political belief and pressure in Canada to continue and ramp up the war on drugs in Canada as well the main pressures still come from our neighbors to the south. That being said if a victory to end prohibition can be made in the USA which is the largest battle ground the war can be ended here in Canada as well.

US drug war has met none of its goals

1. $20 billion to fight the war on drugs in producing countries (Columbia , Mexico and so on)
2. $33 billion in marketing to youth and other prevention programs. High school students report the same rates of illegal drug use as they did in 1970.
3. according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drug overdoses have “risen steadily” since the early 1970s to more than 20,000 last year.
4. $49 billion for law enforcement along America’s borders to cut off the flow of illegal drugs. This year, 25 million Americans will snort, swallow, inject and smoke illicit drugs, about 10 million more than in 1970, with the bulk of those drugs imported from Mexico.
5. * $121 billion to arrest more than 37 million nonviolent drug offenders, about 10 million of them for possession of marijuana. Studies show that jail time tends to increase drug abuse.
6. $450 billion to lock those people up in federal prisons alone. Last year, half of all federal prisoners in the U.S. were serving sentences for drug offenses.

The very waste full and useless long gun registry could very well be a thing of the past we need to support the politians that are moving to put the final nail in the coffin on this program. Its very easy for Conservative MP’s to vote to remove this attack on personal freedom, however the Liberal MP’s will need more support in doing the right thing, please e-mail the following Liberal MP’s and let them know that you support them supporting the end to this abomination.

Scott Andrews – Andrews.S@parl.gc.ca
Larry Bagnell – BagneLL@parl.gc.ca
Jean-Claude D’Amours – DamouJ@parl.gc.ca
Wayne Easter – EasteW@parl.gc.ca
Keith Martin – MartiK@parl.gc.ca
Anthony Rota – RotaA@parl.gc.ca
Todd Russell – RusseT@parl.gc.ca
Scott Simms – SimmsSc@parl.gc.ca
Ignatieff cracks whip on gun registry

Tax Payer Federation

Good speech about Economic history and freemarket misconceptions. Its a quick notes version of economics and history but I think Thomas Woods Jr. Gets the point across. Points out a fact that Statists and Lefties never ask why some thing is happening only say that its wrong and to get government to fix it.
If we don’t understand the “problem” we can’t fix it correctly and that’s some thing that very much lacks in government thinking.

http://mises.org/Services/MediaEmbed.aspx?MediaId=427