There are many words commentators have used to describe the new federal budget: conservative, cautious, humdrum, prudent, bold, visionary, revolutionary, transformative. It’s hard to find le mot juste but here’s another: small.
Small government. Small minds. Small ideas. Parochial, petty, cheap.
Consider the $170 million to come out of the $2.5-billion budget of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade by 2014-’15.
As the budget will foster a diminished Canada at home, without ambition to address income inequity or embrace national projects, it will foster a diminished Canada abroad.
Oh, we’ll swagger in international forums and wag fingers in the United Nations and Davos. We will continue to talk about human rights in Burma but not China. We will continue to sell asbestos and challenge climate change.
Small, very small. Mean, too.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion...819/story.html
Oh, we’ll swagger in international forums and wag fingers in the United Nations and Davos. We will continue to talk about human rights in Burma but not China. We will continue to sell asbestos and challenge climate change
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!




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