I don’t recall ever seeing an economics-related thing like this between our two countries. And this is despite a Canadian Dollar at par with the greenback. You’d expect the exact opposite.
But there’s a big butt for the Canadian story. And by butt, I do of course mean butt with a double T as in a big ass. A big, fat ass which is so big it has a 
name: Big Government. And its own postal codes (which coincides with each province’s capital, and the parliament buildings, which is fitting, because it’s like the big fat ass is sitting on all of Canada and stifling it, and more— make up your own metaphors here). And like any donut-eater’s huge ass, the Canadian ass is growing bigger.
Private companies boosted their payrolls by 22,700 during the month of January, but government employment increased by 26,400, according to Statistics Canada.
That’s asinine. That’s what happens in countries led by progressives; and logic dictates that at that rate, eventually most everybody will be working for the government at some point in the future. And that’s too North Korean for my taste. It’s ass-backward.
And speaking of asses, no, Jack Layton and your cabal of socialist you’ve got to be kidding party parrots* screeching variations of the “oh it’s all on the backs of the ‘workers’” canards: average hourly wages advanced 2.6 percent in January from a year earlier, the fastest pace since May, following a gain of 2.4 percent in December. Higher than inflation. And government wages are already higher than most people’s, and certainly higher than my pay or my wife’s. So put down that hammer and sickle.
Meanwhile, just to draw some meaning out of the numbers of jobs at play here (which I do as a free bonus to readers), Wal-Mart said last month it will open 40
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