Author: Blazingcatfur

In recent years, governments are increasingly turning to a particular tool to deal with things they don’t like: the ban.

Depending on which way one leans, one may agree or disagree with a prohibition. But the practice itself is dangerous because it is an inevitable slippery slope. Once the public acquiesces to a ban or other sort of restriction, further bans are sure to follow. This was the fate of the smoking ban, which first limited cigarette smoking to outdoor areas, and has since escalated in countries like New Zealand to a permanent lifetime ban on any tobacco products for citizens born after 2009, regardless of age. This is an affront to economic freedom and consumer sovereignty.

In the past few weeks European farmers have taken to the streets of their capitals to advertise a rebellious mood that few expected to see.

Having enjoyed a comfortable life for decades, thanks to subsidies from their respective governments and the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), they were not expected to invade the grand capitals, together with their sheep, cows and tractors, with a litany of woes.

The question of food security was first raised after World War II as a top priority for Western European nations as they tried to rebuild their shattered economies.

Had enough of advocates for green energy technology who promise the sun and the moon in terms of efficiency and cost savings only to have this new tech crap out the moment it’s needed most?

Fed up with an armada of state-of-the-art electric buses where none of the buses work nearly as well as promised and at least half of them are broken down in the garage at any given time?

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, even by his own insufferable standards, had quite a week. It was as rough as the road network that he knows all too well as a Montreal MP.

Addressing a group of transit advocates on Monday, Guilbeault felt himself amongst fellow radicals and announced that the Trudeau government “has made the decision to stop investing at the federal level in new road infrastructure” because “the analysis we have done is that the network is perfectly adequate to respond to the needs we have.”