Monday, October 24, 2011

Monday Morning Links

Assorted content to start your week.

- Romeo Saganash comments on the need to recognize and act on our common social bonds:
Whether you live on reserve, in the remote north, or in the heart of a city, there is much healing -- much teaching and learning -- that needs to be done. I carry that responsibility deep in my heart.

It is also about reconciling rural Canada with urban Canada, east with west, Francophones with Anglophones, and both of those groups with all of us who have another mother tongue, whether we are new Canadians or indigenous peoples.

It is about reconciling the need for economic development with protecting the environment so that our children and their children will have a future; one that allows them to prosper physically and spiritually as well as materially.

It is about Canada's role in protecting human rights at home and abroad, ensuring that full respect for the rule of law by those in authority promotes peace and lawfulness by everyone and is never replaced by the raw application of power.

It is about reconciling the obligations that people owe to society with what they take in benefits from society. When I look at the Occupy Wall Street -- and now Occupy Everywhere -- protests that are going on, I see the urgent need to reconcile the growing gap between the privileged few and the many of us who pay for those privileges.

Reconciliation is the path to prosperity. Canada prospers when we strengthen our common bonds.
- Meanwhile, CBC profiles Martin Singh. And Murray Dobbin makes his case for Peggy Nash - albeit with rather more anti-NDP spin toward Thomas Mulcair and Brian Topp than is warranted.

- Erin points out that the NDP's planned potash royalty review may help to eliminate the risk of a 2009-style wipeout by ensuring a more stable revenue stream.

- Finally, Frank Graves is rightly concerned about the declining legitimacy of governments that represent a smaller and smaller proportion of voters.

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