sledgehammer

I see the Ontario Liberals are going to use the heavy hand of state coercion to meddle lives of families and the raising of their children. This is just appalling:

Ontario to be first to deny driver's licences to dropouts under 18

The statism of this is objectionable on so many levels. I wonder, if most of the dropouts are inner city poor, as i suspect they are in disproportionate amounts, then this will have little effect since transit is far more widely available in urban areas.

Coupled with the Federal Liberals stance on daycare -- that institutional, goverment approved centres are the only options that deserve taxpayer support -- you have a governing ideologoy in the largest province and at the federal level summed up as : big brother knows best. In a speech at UWO last year Christpher Hitchens remarked on North Korea: "North Korea was founded in 1948, the same year Orwell wrote 1984. I wonder if they didn't get a copy of the book and go 'maybe we could make this work'". It appears to me that more than one member of the Canada's governing class may have taken to much of a shine to the books central messages, albiet in the inverse as to what they were intended to convey.