Canada and The Russian Disease: Omnibus Budget Bill C-38

The fact is that Harper’s  425-page omnibus Budget Bill C-38 takes apart the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and makes questionable changes to the Fisheries Act.  Shouldn’t a Budget Bill be confined to finances?  Shouldn’t these be separate Bills before Parliament?  Did we not just have an omnibus Crime Bill? Harper’s “Budget,” which does everything it can to promote Alberta oil, and much more, raises better comparisons with Lenin’s N.E.P. (New Economic Policy) and Gosplan (The State Planning Commission). This, of course, helped pave the way for Stalin’s later Five-Year Plans.  Maybe Canadians need to budget for  more historians  - to better preserve the memory of our democracy.