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Nipawin - February 19, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis | |
everybody |
One secret of conventional commerce(1) is to play with everybody else's money and make |
money at the expense of others. In so doing, conventional commerce emphasizes the | |
economic gimmicks of property rights, free contracts and market prices to circumvent the | |
breaking of people's rights(2). | |
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greasing |
Today, we discover how our Stockwell Day, leader of the Canadian Alliance, has been |
greasing his political support by taking money away from Albertan taxpayers and increase | |
the GDP in the process. | |
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$70,000 |
We recall that Stockwell Day settled his bigoted defamation litigation with Red Deer lawyer |
Lorne Goddard at a total cost of taxpayer money of about $800,000 including a payment of | |
$500,000 to Stockwell Day's lawyers(3). Today, we understand that six days after Mr. Day | |
settled this litigation, the Canadian Alliance received a $70,000 donation from the same | |
lawyers who received the $500,000 compensation for defending Mr. Day(4). | |
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time for |
This is the measure of smartness of our leadership, making money out of somebody else's |
money and break our people's rights. Do we need this kind of leadership across the | |
political and business spectrum? I hope not, and it is time for change. | |
------------References/endnotes: | |
List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com | |
A Reflection on Conventional Commerce and Tough Leadership, by Mario deSantis, February 16, 2001 | |
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The Implausibility of Professor Tom Flanagan, by Mario deSantis, February 11, 2001 | |
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Stockwell Day's settlement increases the GDP, by Mario deSantis, January 17, 2001 | |
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Klein slams Day donations, By JIM MACDONALD-- The Canadian Press, February 18, 2001 |