The Anonymous Widower

David Starkey and the Canadian Solution

I watched the political programme on BBC1 last night, This Week.  One of my favourite broadcasters, David Starkey, gave a history lesson about Canada.  He has a reputation for being difficult, but I needed to borrow a picture from one of his books for a web site and he was charm personified.

Fifteen years ago, the dominion was in a terrible mess, with massive borrowings and a stagnant economy.  The new government cut very deeply and within three years many of the problems had been solved.  Now Canada has the strongest growth rate of the countries in the G7.

Whoever wins the election must cut and cut very deeply.  But they won’t!

April 13, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | World | Canada, History, Politics