Sunday, June 19, 2005

Some things would change if I was in charge

  • Eliminate speed bumps. They're only good for wrecking suspensions.
  • Free transit for anyone over 60.
  • Big financial incentives to buy hybrid cars. Low Emmission Vehicles get to use HOV lanes. They also get parking at 50%.
  • No more red light cameras. Only a live cop can judge whether you should have stopped in time.
  • Speed cameras in all school zones and playground zones. There's no excuse for speeding in them.
  • Hide the GST back into the price of all products - we don't need to see it. This will also make it more realistic to:
  • Abolish the penny. Everything totalling more than 2 or 7 cents is rounded up, otherwise rounded down to the nearest nickel.
  • Financial incentives to companies that capitalize on telecommuting at least 50% of the work week.
  • Abolish the CRTC. Or at least its mandate of legislating Canadian content. Canadian programming that's any good will stand on its own.
  • Build a lot more wind farms for power generation - especially in Southern Alberta.
  • Send all cooks back to school and tell them to can it with the pepper already.
  • Twin the Trans Canada highway from coast to coast. Find a way. It's embarrassing.
  • Make all specialty cable TV channels a-la-carte. There are too many crap channels riding the coat-tails of good ones. The ones that get no demand must be tossed.
  • The penalty for drinking and driving is loss of license. Forever. No exceptions. Not even for work.
  • Abolish the gun registry. Crimes are rarely committed with registered weapons.
  • If something you order in a restaurant doesn't look anything like the picture, you get to send it back - no questions asked.
  • Legalize marijuana, but only on Vancouver Island. Think about that for a second. Don't worry, it'll be faster to get there - the TransCanada will have been twinned...
  • Find a way, maybe through corporate sponsorship or something - to make University free.
  • If someone emigrates to Canada with a professional skill - for heaven's sake let them at least challenge an exam to earn the right to practise that skill here.
This list is a work in progress.....

P.S.: I cannot believe the lack of comments on this post! I thought for sure this would prompt some lively discussion. Must be a slow week.

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