Round up

Indian affairs minister Jim Prentice is being urged to bring back Chretien era legislation.  Which would be a good thing.

The governance act, which died in 2003, would have required native bands to adopt minimum standards of accountability such as holding regular elections and publishing financial records. The bill, which had been put forward under former prime minister Jean Chrétien's leadership, was rejected by then prime minister Paul Martin.

 

I'd sure like to see this poll question: apparently 2/3 of Canadians want to keep the gun registry.

 

''The concept of a gun registry has taken root across the country. There's a majority, 67 per cent, that's not a small majority, who believe that Stephen Harper shouldn't be doing away with all gun registries.''

Oh - well if you ask if the government should get rid of all gun resistries and let chaos reign, what did you think we'd say?  What a bogus survey and story.

Finally, an interesting survey of demographics and ideology: who knew conservative people have more kids?  I mean really, this is news?

... in the so-called red states that voted for George W. Bush, the fertility rate is 12 per cent higher than in the blue states that supported John Kerry...in the 1950s about 10 per cent of women were childless. That number is now 20 per cent...And finally people who support gay marriage, euthanasia and legalized abortion tend to have one child.

The end result of this for the liberal state could be dubbed the revenge of the empty cradle.