Yesterday the Harper Conservatives blocked the sale of Potash Corp, clearly the central state planners that the Conservatives are believe they know more than the shareholders what to do with their own property. The letter was published - mostly as is and including the typo. I was bemused at how another letter on the subject claims the Conservative Party has been infiltrated by libertarians - what a joke!! This letter is copied at the bottom too, don't read at breakfast or you may end up with Shreddies up your nostrils as one local did :)

My letter to the National Post on the issue:

The National Post very properly lambasts the Potash buyout rejection, but I’m not so sure why the multiple commenter’s seem to think this is out of character for the Conservatives. Earlier this week Taseko Resources was blocked from starting a multi-billion dollar mine in B.C. by the Conservatives. The environmental assessment for Taseko had already been approved provincially in much more detail and the over-ruling of the approval by the Conservatives was state central planning politicians at ‘work’.

The Conservative Party policy is consistently one of central state planning of the economy: so it seems the much discussed coalition is actually the Conservatives and NDP not the Liberals and the NDP.