Egypt and Ambassador Philip MacKinnon

Canadian Ambassador Philip MacKinnon (above) was at the Canadian Club yesterday to talk about Egypt and the middle east. We were provided with an insightful speech. It was a mixture of concerns and or guarded optimism with respect to the middle east and Egypt. It was clear that Ambassador MacKinnon knows the middle east well.

One comment he made about Egypt got me thinking about our problems here in Manitoba. Time and time again I hear from people about the problems with our provincial NDP government. Mr. MacKinnon used a phrase to dexcribe a period in Egypt's history when it was troubled with "stultifying state socialism". This phrase certaintly fits with some of our problems today in Manitoba.

Our province needs to burst out of the stultifying constraints of the present government to achieve its rightful place as one of the leading provinces of Canada. This is one of the reasons I am very persistent in my efforts to change the government in Manitoba to unleash the potential we have in our province.