Quote of the Day: “No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk. What do the poor most need? They need to stop being poor. And how can that be done, on a mass scale, except by an economy that creates vastly more wealth? Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it.” Thomas Sowell
A rather long quote from Dr. Sowell today – but something that I think is about as close to the truth as you will ever read.
When Luisa D’Amato is wrong, she is really wrong. Just look at any of her columns regarding Wilmot Mayor Les Armstrong, or my favourite column on 11 September 2020. But when she is right, she is really right. Today is one of those days. She fills in some details about the article by Gordon Paul that I mentioned yesterday about the woman who was fined $2,600 after she released part of the transcript of her sexual assault court case. Her closing two sentences sum up her column perfectly: “This crime victim was assaulted once, and now she’s being assaulted again. Only this time, it’s the judge and the lawyers that are doing the assaulting. How tragic. And how shameful.” Exactly. But I’d like to know why the woman’s own lawyer suggested the $2,600 fine along with the Crown? Did the Crown threaten jail time or even a much higher fine? Isn’t her lawyer also part of the problem?
The Editorial (oh, and Editorial Cartoon as well) talks about the Rogers / Shaw deal and bemoans cell phone prices. The Editorial uses some rather questionable facts when comparing cell phone prices between Canada and the U.S. The Editorial strangely suggests that: “One of the problems industry analysts consistently point to is the lack of competition for providing wireless services in Canada.” Well of course it is. So, why doesn’t the Editorial suggest the most obvious solution – let foreign players into Canada like Xfinity / Comcast, Verizon, AT&T etc. Oh wait, I can just hear the screaming from the TorStar editorial desks now about the sellout of Canadian companies… Stupid.