The world monetary and banking system that left tens of millions unemployed in Canada, the U.S., Europe and elsewhere, and eroded the retirement wealth of a whole generation, is a disaster and must be fixed for the benefit of all. You would think G20 leaders would get the message after 25 recessions and depressions since 1890. Apparently not; we are doomed to struggle with more of the same.

The real source of the problem is a privately owned money-manufacturing monopoly that creates virtually all the new money as debt, of which there is so much that the real economy is about to drown in it. But there is a quick and simple fix with a Canadian precedent to support it.

Most people believe the bankers' myth that the money they lend to you today is money that someone else deposited yesterday. The odds of that being true are infinitesimal. They have to create the "money" they lend to you.

Read the article by Paul Hellyer - Founder and former leader of CAP:
Take away the banks' licence to print money (Ottawa Citizen)

The Budget of the present session of Parliament has been passed in principle, and the Bill C-9, Budget Implementation Act, is now whizzing through the House, to the dismay of many who have read its 904 pages. They cover such topics as giving the Environment Minister unilateral authority to decide on environmental assessments for any project, allowing Cabinet to sell all or part of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., and scaling back the exclusive rights of Canada Post to collect letters by permitting outside carriers to do so within our borders.

Canadians paid $170-million per day in 2008/2009 in unnecessary interest on federal, provincial and municipal debt. The cost for 2009/10 and subsequent years will likely be higher. These costs are reflected in taxes, fees, cut-backs in public services such as education and medicare and deterioration of infrastructure such as roads, sewers, water lines and affordable housing.