Quote:In violation of international law two major Canadian companies are buying the non-renewable resources of Africa’s last remaining colony.

Saskatoon’s PotashCorp and Calgary’s Agrium have partnered with Morocco’s state-owned OCP to export phosphate mined in Western Sahara, a sparsely populated territory in northwestern Africa that was ruled by Spain until 1975. When the Spanish departed, Moroccan troops moved in and a bloody 15-year war drove tens of thousands of Sahrawi into neighboring Algeria, where they still live in camps.

Quote:There are two very different things at play here, the fiscal and the political.

There’s a broken campaign promise and we’ve already seen that Trudeau promises can be iron-clad (CF-18s out of the anti-ISIS effort), malleable (Syrian refugee targets), and breakable ($10-billion deficits and a balanced budget this mandate).

Quote:Today, the soundest of business economists are calling on Ottawa to run big deficits in order to create valuable infrastructure.

In short, deficit-financing is the new middle ground. It should come as no surprise that this is where the Trudeau Liberals have situated themselves.

The party that used to pride itself on slaying the deficit now prepares to announce a fiscal shortfall that could be in the neighbourhood of $30 billion annually.

Deficit spending on this scale hasn’t been tried since 2009. It worked then.

Quote:OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals have joined forces with the official Opposition to overwhelmingly approve a Conservative motion condemning  Canadians who promote the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.

But not all Liberals are on side.