"Ontario intends to become the first province to restrict the use of a
controversial pesticide linked to bee deaths, requiring farmers and other
commercial growers to apply for permits to plant seeds treated with
neonicotinoid insecticides."

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/pesticide-linked-to-bee-de
aths-to-be-restricted-in-ontario/article19480431/

or

http://tinyurl.com/o4o6bol

 

But if seeds are regulated, then what of the "right to bear fruit"?

This could all end very badly - bilingual signs in Quebec prohibiting
concealed pomegranates.

The impact on banana jokes would be devastating.

A bag of salted sunflower seeds would have a street value of $2.6 million.

Pistachio porn would be traded on DVDs in dark alleys.

 

I for one, look forward to the next Canadian election.  The Liberals don't
have anything close to a majority, the Conservatives have done an about-face
on most of the platform they tried in the last election, making them a bit
more "progressive", and the NDP is still struggling to seem relevant at a
national level.

 

So, Justin Trudeau?  Anyone remember Pierre?  Say what you will about him,
before him, there was no "Charter of Rights and Freedoms", a fairly basic
document for a country that says it is a parliamentary democracy (and a
constitutional monarchy, God save the Queen).  

 

Of course, the US, is ostensibly a "republic", but on a practical level: 

 

".analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing
business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government
policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or
no independent influence."

 

http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and
%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf 

or

http://tinyurl.com/oa7kl55

 

 


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