Monthly Archives: November 2009

Why Does This Not Surprise Me?

So ol’Harpy is once again touting that our best avenue to expand our relationship with China is to improve trade?  Well it’s no real surprise down here at the CCPIT headquarters let me tell you.  Here’s some interesting facts, after the US, Canada is the second biggest exporter to China. Considering we are also among [...]

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Dumb “Pricks”

Okay, so I’m going to assume that you’ve heard the title of this post used in reference to people, but I am going to share with you it’s origin as I recently was reading about it.  Prick or “pricksy” as was the common reference in post colonial Britain was a term that was used to [...]

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Separates “Us” from “Them”

Now I think this is not going to come as any surprise to anyone who has been reading my blog for a while, but I am not a huge fan of the current government in power.  I won’t go as far to say who it is that I am a fan of although I tend [...]

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Did you hear about this?

First read the story here. So the ol’Harpy is off to China and then boom he gets sidelined by this (and by sidelined, we mean an issue he was probably well aware of for a while now).  And on the eve of visiting China, the newest economic superpower and here we are having to explain [...]

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Would the Real Stockwell Day Please Stand Up?

So it won’t really come as any surprise to anyone of our long term readers that I am not the biggest fan of the Conservative Party, or of our ol’Harper.  But, call me crazy but I’ve always had a place in the heart for the little tan leprechaun Stockwell Day.  Personal story time – I [...]

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Are you a real Canadian?

Show some support for Canada’s first choice when it comes to finding out information about Trade in Canada, from a real perspective.  These new CCPIT shirts are available and make a great stocking stuffer.  If you’re ready to take your stance on the moral wrongs of Canadian Trade policy makers, then do it with this [...]

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Renewed Nuclear Trade with India? Oh Boy.

You heard it here first.  Canada’s PM is off to India and it really comes as no surprise to anyone here that the ol’boy is on a sales call of sorts.  And what is he hawking?  Well how about $5 billion dollars worth of trade between New Delhi and Ottawa.  Considering India is the world’s [...]

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