Human Rights Commissions continue to show they need to be abolished

Have you heard the joke about a stand up comedian being heckled by people in the crowd and then heckling back? Sorry- in this case it is not a joke!! Do not know if you have been following the most recent farce of a Human Rights complaint in British Columbia. You can read the article […]

Posted on March 30th, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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Ontario Budget to be released this afternoon

The Ontario budget will be released today at Queens Park at 4pm. Will Premier McGuinty continue to show hard working Ontarians that he has no clue how to manage the province’s finances? or will he show some leadership and start to reduce the size of government today?
You can read our press release that has been […]

Posted on March 25th, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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Free Speech is not alive and well in Canada

Don’t know if you caught it or not, but Anne Coulter’s speech was cancelled at the University of Ottawa over security concerns from people protesting her appearance there. You can read the article here.
Anne Coulter is a well known provocateur in the United States and speaks her mind on many issues. Her books are always […]

Posted on March 24th, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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Time for real transparency, not partisan games

The latest news out of Ottawa on the transparency front is more of the same. Transparency from government is required, especially on the heels of non-stop revelations of careless spending at all levels of government.  It is encouraging that some MPs are publicly supporting the idea of transparency, and this should be a no-brainer. You […]

Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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10 Percenter follow up

We issued a press release last night when we realized that the Conservatives were not going to support getting rid of this waste of taxpayers’ money. You can read it here.
We are glad that common sense still managed to prevail. The government will go forward with eliminating this total waste of taxpayers money and the […]

Posted on March 18th, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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MP’s get it right on 10 Percenters

We were glad to see MP’s vote in favour of eliminating the 10% mailers, which were initially intended to be used to inform people in an MP’s home riding about issues that relate to goings on in government.
The problem is that these mailers were used by all federal parties only to slag each other. The […]

Posted on March 17th, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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Federal Budget Update

In the federal budget released last week, there was the news that departmental spending was to be frozen for the upcoming budget year and subsequent years as well. We applauded that move, but we still realize that the spending of the past several years has given most departments bloated numbers to start with as the […]

Posted on March 15th, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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McGuinty stars in Alice in Wonderland

Did anyone else wonder what Premier McGuinty actually had to say in the Throne Speech earlier this week? I sure did. I know that Throne speeches are usually full of supposed grand visions and flowery words but this one was one for the ages.
In his typical fashion, there were a lot of words said but […]

Posted on March 10th, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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Reaction to the Speech from the Throne

The National Citizens Coalition has been campaigning hard for fiscal sense in this year’s budget, and we are being heard. As yesterday’s Speech from the Throne approached, citizens eagerly awaited to see what direction the country would be heading this year. Over the past several years, annual government spending has increased at an unsustainable pace, […]

Posted on March 4th, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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NCC Blog: The most important budget in a decade

With the Olympics finished, our politicians are gearing up to resume the daily grind of Question Period.  Don’t let that turn you off of politics though, because the federal budget is set to be released now and it is the most important budget in a decade.
The National Citizens Coalition has been very clear about what […]

Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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