New Tasks For A New Conservative Government

Here are some of the tasks Wayne Eyre proposes for the re-elected Conservative government:

- Join MP Keith Martin's initiative to kill Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act -- the one that deals with speech that's "likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt." Section 13 is custom-made for Islamist, and other, anti-free-speechers who -- with no hit on their own wallet -- can, and do, launch capricious and malicious suits against others. Mr. Harper had it right in 1999, when he publicly opined that "Human Rights Commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is, in fact, totalitarianism. I find this very scary stuff."

-Rule that those who arrive in Canada without credible, or any, identification papers should be sent back, on the next plane available, to the country from which they came. The immediate granting of rights and social benefits to uncredentialed arrivals is crazy.

-Declare that, henceforth, the military -- not the police -- will be dispatched to clear road blockades by First Nations protesters, or any other group that erects them. Negotiation is the only acceptable means of resolving disputes or claims that result in roads being blocked to all who wish to use them.

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Great ideas. Myself I would add a few more such as:

Overhaul the immigration system so that prospective immigrants get their language skills and employment credentials recognized and validated by a respective organization in Canada before they even apply. The quota for refugees and "humanitarian" migrants should be set to no more than 1% of overall number of immigrants.

Institute zero-base budgeting. Make government departments justify all their spendings, not just what they want to spend on top of what they've spent last year, adjusted to inflation and population growth. Cut all the wasteful spendings, so that program spendings could be kept under $180B until 2012 at the least. The savings should be evenly split between reducing debt and cutting taxes.

Allow provinces and municipalities to use the Bank of Canada to finance infrastructure projects. All the interest on those loans would be passed to the bank's only shareholder - the Federal government, which could reinvest those dividends back into the provinces and municipalities the money came from.

And of course:
Get the Senate reform done! Hold a referendum if necessary to overcome the obstruction from the opposition. (Especially in the Senate.) A referendum would also allow voters to decide whether they want to maintain the existing seat distribution in the Senate or whether there should be equal number of Senators for each province. Last time, most of the democratic reform bills ended up being blocked by the opposition. Make it a matter of confidence this time - even in a minority situation, the opposition parties won't dare to bring down the government on the question of Senate reform.